Admissions

Since the 2016 US presidential election, women’s colleges have been seeing significant gains as more young women embrace #MeToo

The high cost and visa complexity associated with Western higher education is driving a mushrooming number of African students east, says Kuyok Abol Kuyok

Experts express concern that call for five-year access agreements is a ‘distraction technique’

Females out, bureaucrat’s son in as Tokyo Medical University rigs entrance scores

Focusing on the mature student market can offer short-term relief from market pressure, but it is not a sustainable approach, says Nora Ann Colton

The UK's new right-to-study rules are another manifestation of its ‘hostile environment’ for immigrants, say Katie Bales and Bridget Anderson 

Prestigious private institutions highlight importance of student diversity in light of lawsuit that could set a precedent on affirmative action

Shrinking pool of applicants puts students in the driving seat

Latest Ucas figures show almost a quarter of 18-year-olds got at least one offer of a university place that did not depend on their upcoming results

Elite institutions could face sanctions if they fail to deliver on promise to conduct evaluation of bursary spending

Years of slogging through English-language crushes Chinese students' love of learning before they even get to an overseas university, says Bob Fonow

Stampede to study AI has led to warnings that the number of lecturers cannot keep up with demand

Father’s failure to pay back loan hits son’s university admission, under state’s big-data system

The public sector has not expanded quickly enough to meet the demand for college degrees in India

Latest data for June deadline applications show a worsening of figures compared with January statistics

A trip to Rwanda convinced Daniel Haydon that Western universities are missing out on a lot of talent by opening themselves up to only the wealthiest

As universities prepare for A-level results day next month, Liz Carlile explains how to get clearing right

Office for Students says universities should put more weight on applicants’ backgrounds

Removal of guidelines on affirmative action and retirement of Supreme Court justice could ‘set the stage for future challenges’ to university admission policies

Visa data, contradicted by Home Affairs figures, raise questions over treatment of Chinese doctoral applicants

In a world transformed, we need a radical new blueprint – for a flexible, less centralised network of scholars and students, says a former Berkeley chancellor

New analysis shows regions were benefiting directly from uncapping of places

Only 17 per cent of Ucas questionnaire’s 85,000 respondents understood government’s flagship exercise designed to improve student choice 

The Oakland Promise, like a number of local schemes in the US, aims to be a ‘cradle to career’ programme moving more of the city’s children into higher education. John Morgan visits California to assess it

Admissions overhaul could trigger wider insistence on mathematics prerequisites

Life prospects for children who have been through the care system are dire, but with better support, higher education could be their salvation, says Patricia Walker 

France’s new ‘Parcoursup’ system for university entry is intensifying the nation’s historical agonies over whether selectivity is compatible with égalité, says Louise Lyle

The push to admit more students from ethnic backgrounds should not be seen as a chore but as a valuable opportunity to update curricula, says Sulaiman Ilyas-Jarrett

Widely varying tuition fees and financial aid programmes prevent students from making fully informed decisions, and policymakers from understanding the effects of interventions, say Ross Finnie, Richard Mueller and Arthur Sweetman

Analysis finds black students significantly more likely to have their applications investigated and cancelled

Scheme introduced as figures show most US colleges have seen a fall in number of international applications

Government backs report proposals to increase regional people’s participation

Australian National University introduces early applications and ‘whole-person’ tests in latest snub to ATAR

International recruitment set to rise in Australia as visa applications rebound

For all the criticism it gets, the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank remains a cheap and efficient selection system that plausibly links entry criteria to academic outcomes, says Andrew Norton

Drop driven by fall in number of mature, part-time and non-degree seeking students in past year

State school students more likely to apply for highly competitive courses, says university report

Recommended applicants tend to be more active members of community and give more generously as alumni, says US research

Conor Ryan says students should apply to university once they know their A-level grades

There are now more women than men in higher education worldwide. While it would appear to be a victory for gender equality, this imbalance also highlights boys’ educational underachievement. Ellie Bothwell reports

Overseas students’ academic potential is hobbled if their English does not far exceed current thresholds, says Danijela Trenkic

Fears over international impact of UT Tyler’s decision, with Nepalese applicants hardest hit

But Grattan Institute report urges government, institutions to steer those unlikely to finish towards cost-saving early exit

Regional institutions, facing uncertain funding future, build case for more federal support ahead of budget

Australian schools to run short of teachers as funding cuts and ‘bad media’ bite into education enrolments

But survey finds less than a third of colleges actually look at social media profiles when making admissions decisions

But government data predict that share of black and ethnic minority students on campuses will rise

A dwindling share of post-school students could leave the country’s workforce short of know-how

The curricular dominance of popular music may sell tickets but belies the point of a musical education, says Sam Richards

New Hepi paper that ranks universities on intake equality illustrates gulf between some Russell Group universities and others

Leading expert says a non-academic enrolment mechanism would cause more problems than it solved

Providers fear funding changes could impede disadvantaged Australians’ road to university

Turner prizewinner says universities should make greater efforts to recruit students from disadvantaged backgrounds

Policymakers in the US and the UK advise against abolishing fees in light of lessons from gratuidad programme

US-Australian study finds that older students in classes have a better chance of entering higher education

Teenagers have completed three-year programme of after-school tuition

Critical acclaim for Admissions, about the experience of a white student and a black student applying to Yale University

Fixation with students’ scores on national ATAR scale constrains teaching innovation in schools, says report

Aston researchers calculate the tensile forces at work when Spider-Man prevents a ship from splitting in two

Hepi report warns that surge in youth population and higher participation will add to government’s funding headache in England