Students

Criticism grows as the government is accused of causing ‘unforgiveable havoc’ amid protests  

Statistical limitations of results likely to be exacerbated by widening of questionnaire beyond final-year undergraduates, warns researcher

OfS plan comes as v-c warns government focus on graduate earnings value will ‘downgrade’ excellent universities beyond London

A post-qualification admissions system will pose logistical challenges, but they must be overcome, says Michelle Morgan

Increasing numbers of students are seeking counselling, suffering from depression and even feeling suicidal. Jason Murugesu urges universities to put much stronger systems in place to provide essential backup for teaching staff

Experts sceptical of free-college methods, but welcome party-wide commitment for 2020 poll

Australian research highlights contrasting motivations of students and their parents, and the need to appeal to both groups

The volatility of current affairs means that the old certainties about how to identify receptive markets are gone, says Anna Esaki-Smith

Despite administrator concern, law enacted as matter of gender and financial fairness

Paula Sussex prioritises improving communication and technology

Hepi poll finds students show little preference for £7,500 fee above £9,250 status quo, casting doubt on electoral benefit of plan

Number of undergraduates disclosing mental health condition has more than doubled in four years, Advance HE data show

UUK report says progress in implementing new guidance on handling complaints has been more mixed

Universities should offer a safety net for recent graduates forced into menial work by financial circumstances, says Roy Celaire

Trump administration defied court order to protect former for-profit students

Main political parties take different approaches to improving affordability of higher education

US study reveals that it’s not just a matter of how much sleep learners get – when they go to bed matters, too

Universities rightly make every effort to protect learners’ feelings. But what about teachers’ feelings, asks Alice Wickenden 

New law envisages broad shake-up to benefit minorities, with full effects tough to predict

Sheffield research finds students who have been in care need better emotional and financial support at university

Results of early assignments can make or break students’ determination to continue their studies, Australian research suggests

Decline of for-profits helps, but ethnic minorities and low income students still in trouble

Cornell, New Mexico and Morehouse schemes highlight importance of debate at federal level, say experts

As governments around the world increasingly look to follow US states’ lead and link university funding to the recruitment, retention and employability of students, Paul Basken surveys the results of the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education US College Rankings 2020 for clues about the strategy’s effectiveness 

Weeks after Trump vow to strengthen HBCUs, key Republican senator causes row by tying funding to wider HE legislation

University study centre ‘positive’ on Islam but not Christianity, objects senior Department of Education official

Australian study also finds that dodgy agents are exploiting a migration advice ‘loophole’

President Bolsonaro’s education cuts and opposition to racial quotas will hit current policies, says Marry Ferreira

Episode spotlights concerns for safety of scholars who visit repressive regimes

France’s president responded to the gilets jaunes movement with a surprise plan to abolish the grande école ENA, reigniting debate about the country’s intensely hierarchical higher education system. John Morgan explores what lies behind the proposal and what it says about the role of exclusive institutions in a populist, anti-elitist age

Trump adviser plans multi-agency tour of universities confused by crackdown

Nearly one in five first-year UK undergraduates tell Unite Students survey that they have a mental health condition

Contrition helps actress who paid to get answers changed on her daughter's SAT

Free of Communist-era secretiveness, the new president might be willing to tackle abuses of power on campus, says Ararat Osipian

Monash union election called off at last minute following criticism

Departure is latest example of intermittent campus disruption from broader protest movement

Caitlin Zaloom considers how we can prevent escalating fees from tying students to their parents well into adulthood

International students want to know that they are studying in a country that can set them up for a successful career, says Seema Kennedy

Recent clashes over Hong Kong and Tiananmen Square have strained universities’ diplomatic sinews, says Roger Smyth

Other universities could face protests if they do not address racial disparities, says campaigner

Chinese students’ misunderstanding of their host society thwarts their efforts to integrate in Australia, says academic

Exam invigilator Helen Soteriou reveals the elaborate schemes devised by students seeking to cheat on their tests

Students schedule their own classes in protest theory, political history and martial arts

Universities must re-examine their efforts to atone for slavery by listening to those affected by racial injustice, says Linda Mann

A bold policy to internationalise Turkey’s universities by teaching in English should be abandoned, says Sinan Bayraktaroğlu

Number of sabbatical officers cut from 19 to seven, and permanent workforce halved, in response to £3 million deficit

With no good data, continental European universities cannot monitor if widening access policies are working

Universities need to be able to support the needs of overseas learners, but should not regard them as being completely different from domestic recruits, say experts

Sociologists demonstrate that brothers and sisters influence the courses students pick

Academics should consider whether they are comfortable giving top marks to students barely literate in English who submit work translated by Google, says Paul Stapleton

Strikes planned, welcomes canned, visits discouraged and events cancelled as campuses brace for strife

More than 2,000 students affected by Liverpool’s ‘academic sanctions’ in two years

New figures suggest steep rises in university participation rate in several Middle-Eastern countries, say Justin D. Martin and Fouad Hassan

Poland’s underperforming university system raises hard questions for those who advocate academic self-government over ‘managerialism’ 

Travel time negatively affected progression at three of six London universities studies

Unite Students’ executive pay deals prompt union criticism of ‘massive rises funded by public money and student debt’

Four out of five presidents in survey describe escalation in recent years

Cultivating open-mindedness and intellectual humility is the best way to combat arrogance and insouciance, says Bethan Willis

Continuous retraining is widely seen as the answer to the coming job losses caused by automation and artificial intelligence. But are universities the best places to provide it? And are their courses, structures and funding systems optimised to do so? Anna McKie reports

Tuition comprises less than half the cost of attending US universities, but taxpayers may be unwilling to cover it, says Anthony P. Carnevale