Europe

Staffordshire and University for the Creative Arts secure gold, but Sheffield stays on silver

Donation from philanthropist Stephen Schwarzman is institution’s ‘largest since the Renaissance’

Experts divided over whether centre-left but anti-immigration Social Democratic Party will continue, scrap or enhance current policy restricting foreign student numbers

Preparations for sale by Apollo Education Group are under way, THE understands, two years after owner changed hands

UCL vice-provost warns that universities' ability to cross-subsidise grants is declining

Critics warn against equating a course’s value with its graduate earnings, of threats to universities’ autonomy on funding decisions and damage to research

Arden v-c Carl Lygo says panel judged universities against Oxbridge model and ignored value of widening participation institutions

Experts propose ‘national widening access cohort’ as alternative to widely criticised POLAR measure

Hundreds of staff set to walk out on 28 June

Running a university and composing music both involve ‘strategic planning’, says Roderick Watkins, composer of the ‘very dark, very violent’ Juniper Tree

Former X Factor judge becomes co-owner of Liverpool Media Academy

University launches ‘urgent investigation’ into why it was not represented at tribunal