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Competition and Markets Authority advice addresses terms and conditions for students

A claim of academic immunity is not the trump card it was, say David Lawson and Leon Glenister

The Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey is being abused, according to one former university employee

FoI request shows large rise, which university puts down to more awareness

England¡¯s university access tsar boycotted a conference on student welfare after a controversial lending firm was also invited to speak

Controversial cuts to Disabled Students¡¯ Allowance are to be subject to a legal challenge

As Ed Miliband announces Labour¡¯s policy on university tuition fees, the shadow universities minister sets out his party¡¯s plans for higher education

The AQA decision to end a promising trial of the subject does a disservice to students, the discipline and the UK, says Joy Hendry

Regulator wants elite universities to set ¡®challenging targets¡¯ on admissions as student number controls end in autumn

How do universities cope in the aftermath of fires, earthquakes and killing sprees?

Durham students are calling for a freeze on accommodation costs after being hit with a 20 per cent hike over the past three years

Steve West says wider cohort needs more support as UUK launches new guidelines for institutions on supporting students

European study sounds the alarm over how mistreatment can harm retention

Academics should be banned from damaging sexual liaisons with students, postgraduates in particular, argues Luke Brunning

More than 50 higher education institutions are taking part in University Mental Health Day today.

Students from poor families should pay tuition fees of only ?3,000 a year, according to the chair of the Independent Commission on Fees

A study has found no evidence that higher tuition fees affect student mental health in the long term

Official guidance for universities on how to support students with mental health problems has been updated

FoI request finds that ?132m is still outstanding despite a fall in total overpayments

What has been the impact of ?9k fees and what is in store when the cap on student numbers is lifted?

With the recruitment cap lifting, accommodation is a hot issue

A night-time safety campaign has been launched by Durham University after three students died in the River Wear in the space of 14 months

Many universities are using ¡°unlawful¡± terms allowing them to make ¡°unfair¡± changes to courses midway through a degree, a consumer watchdog has said

Compilers of a league table say fear of offending students has gone too far

A rift will always separate digital natives from others, Shahidha Bari believes

Why are today¡¯s students so preoccupied with protecting themselves from potentially ¡®harmful¡¯ ideas, asks Tom Slater

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The University of Sussex should not have suspended four students after a protest and should pay compensation, the sector¡¯s complaints body has found

The National Union of Students has accused universities of being ¡®prepared to ignore¡¯ incidents of sexual assault and harassment on campus

Christopher?Bigsby on those who take a creative approach to academic rigour

Students¡¯ union objects to change that will make thousands ineligible for extra weeks of support via ¡®long courses loans¡¯

Email reveals that a third of accommodation payments is spent on capital and borrowing expenditure

The counter-terrorism bill will co-opt academics into the ¡®securocrat¡¯ and chill debate on campus - it must be fought, says Martin?Hall

Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto on the habit of naming everything, from university libraries to landings, after people

Move follows survey highlighting gulf between social classes on guidance

Universities need to do more to ¡°bring to life¡± their student charters, which set out what students can expect of their higher education experience

Police drew a taser and used CS spray at a student protest at the University of Warwick, on a day of demonstrations across higher education.

Student activists are taking part in what they describe as ¡°a day of action for free education while the government delivers another round of cuts¡±

The number of UK students who have applied early to university has fallen by 3 per cent, new interim figures show

A group of University of Birmingham students occupied one of its main buildings, calling for free education and the right to protest

The average US student¡¯s experience varies widely between universities, even when the institutions are similarly selective and of a comparable size.

Discoveries made off-campus are as valuable as lectures, says Christopher Bigsby

Students have been marching in London calling for ¡®free education¡¯, in an attempt to push fees back on to the news and political agenda

Universities minister announces plan to send 5,000 students a year to the subcontinent during his visit to Delhi

Universities have been urged to use 10 key tactics to boost enrolment in medicine by students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Jon Marcus examines the decline of all-female institutions in the West and their rising popularity in the developing world

Manchester students criticise ¡®flagship¡¯ programme¡¯s lack of alternative perspectives

Matthew Reisz talks to academics about their experiences of teaching older learners, while Holly Else analyses the decline in the number of mature students

The National Union of Students has pulled its backing from this month¡¯s ¡°free education¡± demonstration

Shahidha Bari on the flawed, yet fascinating, admissions process

Use of American system involving first-year marks may have ¡®depressive effect¡¯ on student grades

Students will join prisoners in what the institution says is a European first

New edition of Collins English Dictionary contains raft of new terms

Battle of Ideas debate asks if policies of ¡°no-platforming¡± make campuses ¡®homogeneous zones of head-nodding¡¯

We urgently need to confront grade inflation, poor-value degrees, unequal access and lack of contact time, writes Jamie Martin

Why keep on assessing how students feel? asks Joanna Williams

University College London has apologised after its email system was hacked, leaving students with thousands of spam emails in their inboxes.

The head of the University of Oxford has said he is ¡°baffled¡± by the UK¡¯s ¡°hostile¡± student visa system, and called for a shift to evidence-based policymaking

University of West London conference on the work of Roger Brown hears of the drawbacks of higher education marketisation

Funding burden will shift from L?nder to federal government in €825m overhaul. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports