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New polling shows strong support for degrees from parents, while Tory tactic may be of ‘near-zero interest’ to public

Start of classes pushed back, with longer postponement probable, as reservist staff, academics and students called up

Voters have little enthusiasm for paying higher taxes to fund universities, new polling finds

Matt Western calls sustainable sector funding ‘a big ask’ as two vice-chancellors back graduate tax

Sutton Trust finds limited progress on opening up leading universities to less affluent school-leavers

New director promises political impartiality and a thorough consultation as English regulator gets ready to promote and protect expression on campus

Census data on higher education qualifications, which is broken down by age and sex for the first time, shows that 60 per cent of some age groups graduated from university

While academics may be dismissive, the process helps their professional colleagues recognise their own scholarly contributions, say four of them

Hesa figures suggest uptake has hit record high, with more scholars on teaching and research contracts having a teaching qualification than those employed as teaching-only

Stringing out the numerous challenges could risk influence of Teaching Excellence Framework declining across the sector, experts fear

The UK government is freezing ‘troublemaking’ educationalists out of policymaking. Universities should model better forms of debate, says Clare Brooks

Agency accused of violating Lisbon convention for quizzing students who earned foreign credit after governance rift at the University of Theatre and Film in Budapest