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

Students want above all to develop ties with the people and places they interact with, say Liam Keenan and Maddy Thompson

Students’ talents wear many guises, depending on the person, the field and the judge. But instilling ethics is also crucial, says Howard Gardner

Relinquishing guardianship to boost aid eligibility puts spotlight on ethics and debts

German universities need to collect better data and rethink selection system to improve integration, analysis finds

Students from poorer regions who enter their local workforce after graduation should also be celebrated, says Sir David Bell

Survey affirms need for boosting human-based concerns in admissions and curricula

But overall students are split on the policy of making lower grade offers to applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds

Scholars question whether move against autonomous private schools will go far enough in equalising university admissions

Law dean calls Amy Wax’s views ‘repugnant’ but does not answer demands for her removal

Student and applicant data have been stolen in a ‘malicious and sophisticated’ phishing attack on Lancaster University

Minority institutions wary of big candidate promises to lavish them with support

The banning of certain academic books by prisons in Northern Ireland is deeply counterproductive, says Dieter Reinisch

Provision of teacher residencies and mentoring by universities seen as key to long-term science improvement

Efforts to make college cheaper should not detract from attempts to improve the other side of the value-for-money equation, says Kevin Vanzant

Conference hears about the challenges of coexistence between proselytising religious students and their secular peers