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Higher education

18 August 2024

  • Two female students and a male student standing in a kitchen

    Male UK university students are ‘less macho’ when sharing flats with women

    Researchers have found the competitiveness of men living in mixed flats on UK campuses significantly decreased

17 August 2024

  • Martha Gill

    A-levels are far from perfect, but in the exam hall every pupil – rich or poor – is equally afraid

    Martha Gill
    Despite the high stakes of these gruelling tests, they are still the best engines of social mobility
  • The role of chancellor is regarded as one of the most respected and coveted roles among senior members of the British establishment.

    Labour students make online push for Peter Mandelson as next Oxford chancellor

    Labour peer and former Conservative foreign secretary William Hague battle for role dominated by retired Tory politicians

    • Notebook
      Are studies of great authors doomed as fewer students take English literature at university?

      Rachel Cooke

    • £100 cash and interest-free overdrafts: how to pick a student bank account

    • ‘It enriches your mind in every way’: the fight to keep the UK learning German

16 August 2024

  • A man wearing a suit (Ben Sasse) folds his hands as he looks to the side

    Ex-senator and university president’s spending is under state scrutiny

  • Three women on graduation day wearing gowns and mortarboards

    Higher-tariff universities admit 13% more UK school-leavers than 2023, figures show

15 August 2024

  • A students show her results to an adult

    Pupils achieve best A-level results in a generation but regional gap widens

    North of England lags far behind south-east in national exam grades and university application rates
  • An orange and green sign that reads 'Famu' sits on a green lawn on the Florida A&M University campus

    Florida HBCU president asks leadership team to resign after ‘fradulent’ $237m donation

    Four members stepped down at Florida A&M University upon interim president Timothy Beard’s request

    • A-levels results: pupils in England achieve best results since 2010

    • Vast majority of A-level students secure first choice university places – as it happened

    • Student psychotherapist wins apology over expulsion for gender-critical views

13 August 2024

  • Fifty Pound notes

    Brief letters
    Rein in fat-cat pay at universities too

  • Joyce Yang

    I’m an international student – we’ve been so demonised, no wonder Britain’s losing us

    Joyce Yang

12 August 2024

  • The Bridge of Sighs at Hertford College, Oxford.

    Class snobbery, accents and impostor syndrome

    Letters: Gillian Smith, Rev Geoffrey White and Dr Chris Haughton respond to an article by Wendy Pratt about quitting her PhD

11 August 2024

  • Peter Sayers.

    Other lives
    Peter Sayers obituary

    Other lives: Polymath who pioneered the use of computers in art education and was a leading figure in the cultural life of Cheltenham

10 August 2024

  • Woman protests outside museum

    Harvard declines to remove Sackler name from museum and campus building

  • Mary Watts, left, and Tallulah Huggins with their A-level results at Brighton Girls school last year, when A-level students last year had the lowest chance of getting into a first-choice university.

    More UK students set to get into first-choice university than in previous years

9 August 2024

  • A-level pupils sitting in rows of desks taking an exam

    English universities face autumn ‘tipping point’ as financial crisis looms

    Vice-chancellors fear weaker institutions need bailout to avert failure due to fewer students and higher costs
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