John Butcher and Karen Ahmed respond to Susanna Rustin’s article on the vocational qualificationI am grateful to Susanna Rustin for her trenchant analysis of government failure to tackle the post-16 academic/vocational divide (T-levels are a disaster – and young people are suffering because […]

Institutions must resist thuggish bullying. There is no satisfying Trump. He will move the goalposts again and againSince early 2024, I’ve been running a journalism ethics center at Columbia University.So perhaps it’s no surprise that I see the university’s capitulation to Trump both in terms […]

Ivy League school is latest US university to make step with aim to make it affordable to ‘more students than ever’Harvard University is offering free tuition to more students, the Ivy League school announced on Monday, joining a growing number of higher education institutions in the US to take […]

They were supposed to boost vocational learning, but they’re not popular with students and the dropout rate is high. Time for a dose of realismWhat’s in a name? With T-levels, quite a lot. By choosing a title that sounded a lot like A-levels – with T for technical – the reformers behind […]

Home Office told Manikarnika Dutta to quit Britain for spending too many days abroad for studyA high-achieving academic has been threatened with deportation from the UK because the Home Office says she has spent too many days conducting her research requiring access to historic Indian archives […]

College president says she is ‘heartbroken’ by latest escalation in Trump attack on US campusesNever miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.Agents from the Department of Homeland Security conducted searches in two Columbia University […]

Trump administration has axed $400m in federal funding to Columbia and detained student activist Mahmoud KhalilThe Trump administration said on Tuesday that Columbia University was “refusing to help” the Department of Homeland Security identify people for arrest on campus, after immigration […]

Three people in custody after Southern University student Caleb Wilson was allegedly punched repeatedly in chestAuthorities have arrested two more suspects in the recent fraternity hazing death of a 20-year-old student at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Kyle Thurman was captured on […]

Interim principal says drastic measures needed to tackle £35m shortfall in day-to-day spendingDundee University has announced plans to cut more than 600 jobs and reduce its teaching by a fifth to help cope with a £35m deficit in its accounts.The university’s interim principal, Prof Shane […]

Government’s lead on academic freedom cautions of significant danger to integrity if expression is restrictedUniversities in England should rearrange classrooms and use the Chatham House rule to help students overcome their fears of discussing controversial topics, according to the government’s […]

Despite winning a landmark legal battle, academic Alice Jolly believes it won’t benefit othersAn academic who won a landmark court battle last year against Oxford University for employing her and her colleague on “sham” gig economy contracts has criticised the university for trying to brush […]

President’s slashes to higher education institutions and research funding threaten US public health, workers sayStudents, researchers, faculty and leadership at universities and colleges across the US are grappling with drastic short- and long-term impacts “for decades to come” caused by […]

Government alleges university failed to protect Jewish students amid pro-Palestinian protests on campusThe Donald Trump administration announced on Friday that it had canceled $400m in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University in New York because of what it alleges is the college’s […]

MP for Bolton West says whistleblowers have sent allegations detailing the ‘systematic misuse of public funds’Police are investigating “serious allegations” at the University of Greater Manchester, including of financial misconduct, racism and bullying, MPs have been told.Lucy Powell, the […]

Zou found guilty of raping 10 women in the UK and China, but police fear he may have attacked more than 50 womenNorthern Ireland’s police chief has appealed to students who may have had concerns about the serial rapist Zhenhao Zou, who studied at Queen’s University Belfast for two years.Jon […]

We would like to hear from those whose income-driven repayment options have changed recently due to TrumpThe online application form for several popular student debt repayment plans, such as income-driven repayment plans (IDR), have been taken down by the Donald Trump administration.Applications […]

Multimillionaire Paul Marshall understood to be talking to senior figures in Britain’s right-leaning media about the ideaThe multimillionaire owner of the Spectator has met some of the most senior figures from Britain’s right-leaning media to discuss a plan to fund a new generation of […]

My friend and colleague Tony Millns, who has died aged 73, was the chief executive of English UK, an association of accredited language schools. Over his career, his work led to the introduction of university tuition fees and supported a boom in the number of international English-language […]

Jim Endersby recalls how maths teachers responded to the arrival of cheap pocket calculators in the 1970s and likens it to current fears of AI use by university studentsI agree with Prof Andrew Moran and Dr Ben Wilkinson (Letters, 2 March) that cheap and easy‑to‑use AI tools create problems […]

Broad descriptors of class fail to capture the full picture of underrepresentation, writes Dr Katie Petty-Saphon, while Dr Carl Darby says working-class grit is a useful quality in the NHSMedical schools believe that individuals with the potential to make a good doctor should be given the […]