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King’s College London survey finds ‘significant agreement’ between students and the public ‘on the value of freedom of expression’

Female students are also more likely than men to be ‘undermatched’ to courses with lower graduate earnings

Paper warns that Office for Students must work to build ‘constructive dialogue’ and ‘assure itself’ that it meets legal requirements

As concerns rise about mainstream universities’ affordability, social impact and working cultures, the UK’s Labour Party is mulling the idea of fostering cooperative, comprehensive universities. John Morgan travels to Manchester and Preston to examine some experiments that could point the way 

But results also suggest tactical voting – often due to Brexit – rather than policy is driving many choices 

Students could have significant impact on individual seats, THE modelling suggests, but jury is out on whether this might change overall result

Proposals include new job classifications, a rolling back of metrics, and shorter publication lists in a bid to end excessive ‘emphasis on research performance’

Ucea chair’s institution among those to decide against withholding salaries

Impact of higher education study on reoffending rates emphasised

Prince Andrew’s fall from grace a full decade after Jeffrey Epstein’s conviction underlines academia’s failure to probe modern power, says Jason Lee

Conservatives’ intense scepticism about the value of expanded higher education set against Labour’s attack on ‘failed free-market experiment’, as differing philosophies underlie pledges

Huge deficits emerge as universities start to publish 2018-19 accounts – but impact will be reversed next year