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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 

Programme closures at Australian Catholic University are more disruptive than previously realised

New money aims to attract students from groups with historically low university participation rates

Office for Students will have ¡®much more nuanced and smarter set of powers¡¯ than predecessor organisations, says Chris Millward

Minister unswayed by steelworker¡¯s warning on impact of funding reforms

Monash v-c warns funding freeze is a threat to social cohesion

Sutton Trust report says selective universities should reserve places for local working-class pupils to increase access

Canadian universities¡¯ recruitment of teachers must be done purely on academic merit, say Rodney Clifton and Alexandra Burnett 

Five historians reflect on the disciplinary, institutional, social and political challenges facing their subject

Lawsuit reveals price of consultancy provided to Vietnamese woman by Ivy Coach

Latest data show that Republic is no longer source of strongest demand for UK courses within EU

Analysis of the latest Ucas recruitment data suggests some institutions have changed strategy in the past few years

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Imperial College London president predicts that higher education institutions will follow global corporations in screening applicants using AI-based algorithms

Union fears changes will increase selectivity in university system

Increased interest from EU and overseas fails to make up for shrinking 18-year-old population and reduced demand from mature students

Latest Hesa data show that University of Oxford again has lowest share of new students from state schools, but Oxford Brookes is furthest from its benchmark

India has made clear that education is key to a future trade deal; the UK must take note, says Lord Bilimoria

Improving access to education should be measured by university dropout rates, says Russell Group chief executive

Former Soviet state can become destination for international students thanks to its successful fight against academic graft, says minister

But latest Ucas data show that institutions with the worst records in the past have seen an improvement

Loss of bursaries is not only cause of dramatic fall in applications for UK nursing courses, say university leaders

Unconditional offers harm A-level performance, but contextual offers do not ¨C and they better target social mobility, says John Law

Mary Visser asks if universities are delivering for people born in the late 1990s

How can more degrees be the solution to urban deprivation when poor areas offer no graduate careers? asks Robert Hesketh

The uncapped system had many benefits but its cost was ultimately too high for politicians to bear, writes Andrew Norton

England¡¯s outgoing director of fair access mulls progress on participation and gives advice to new regulator

Pro vice-chancellor warns that students may be ending up on courses on which they will struggle

Latest data from Ucas suggest bulk of institutions are increasingly recruiting students with similar grade profiles

The rapid increase in the number of unconditional offers being made to school-leavers is cause for concern, says Mike Nicholson

Ucas figures show the subjects, geographical areas and grades where getting such an offer is most likely 

More than one in six 18-year-old applicants now gets no-strings-attached offer, Ucas data show

Six institutions with strong graduation rates announce new targets 

Students do not have enough information to make choices about degrees, says watchdog

Jack Grove explores current strategies for widening participation in higher education, and finds out why improving access remains a huge challenge across the world, despite growing university enrolment

James Seymour says it is unfair to tar all private providers with the same brush following revelations of admissions fraud at one college

Number of students winning places at UK institutions after applying direct to clearing up 14 per cent

After rulings against six universities, Iain Campbell and Moya Clifford offer advice on making sure that university adverts are not misleading

Over the past decade, women have opened up a significant lead over men in graduation rates

Measures taken to target high dropout rate could make universities more attractive to domestic and international students

Forty per cent of UK business schools report fall in undergraduate applications from the Continent

Perhaps more could be done, but Oxbridge admissions data closely mirror applications, says Jonathan Leader Maynard

A growing sense of middle-class grievance in the UK would make a radical redistribution of top university places a very difficult political sell, says Sir Nigel Thrift

The most effective institutions in ¡®oiling elite trajectories¡¯ are now universities, not schools, find Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves 

EU and international applications up in data for Oxbridge, medical and veterinary degrees

Sutton Trust says contextual admissions must become ¡®central¡¯ as report reveals uneven use across sector

China and India targeted by drive to recruit more than 100,000 extra students from outside EU

Lagging degree attainment leads to Latinos becoming stuck in middle-wage tiers of labour market, says study

Institution¡¯s Canadian leader tackles executive remuneration, Brexit and diversifying the university¡¯s student intake in THE interview

Latest OECD figures suggest that some countries such as the US are a long way behind others on social mobility

Nick Hillman makes call in book that aims to influence Conservative policy

UMBC president calls for shift in institutional culture at Times ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø forum