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Move follows agreement from employers on lowest-paid workers and review of salary gradesStrikes by university staff over the next two weeks have been called off after a breakthrough in negotiations over pay, pensions and working conditions, unions have…
Education secretary says UK ‘should be very proud of’ university sector, amid briefings with Suella BravermanGillian Keegan has signalled that she disagrees with the Home Office’s plan to cut migration by targeting overseas students, adding the financi…
Black Mountains College in Wales aims to prepare students for life during a planetary emergencyThe lecture theatre was once a cowshed, the study centre is an old farmhouse living room and the classrooms are mostly outdoors: welcome to the newest higher…
Research finds that Black students must contend with challenges including high costs and racial discriminationBlack students have lower six-year completion rates for any kind of degree or certificate program than students in any other racial or ethnic …
Social Mobility Commission says students should be informed of ‘earnings implications’ of course choicesStudents should be given more details about how the courses they study after leaving school might affect their employment prospects, it has been sug…
‘There’s a real compounding perfect storm of factors right now that could increase the risks,’ lead researcher saysGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastInternational student deaths by suicide will continue if gaps in…
Government declines to act on call for legal duty of care for all students after death of Natasha Abrahart in 2018The parents of Natasha Abrahart, who took her own life while studying at the University of Bristol, have reacted with “absolute horror” to…
Republican Florida governor unveils plans for overhaul of state university system as he prepares for expected presidential bidAlex Obraud, a 21-year-old anthropology student in his third year at New College in Florida, did not expect to be on the front…
Oxford and Cambridge universities, once given more than £130m a year in total by European research programmes, are now getting £1m annually between themOne of the UK’s most prestigious universities has seen its funding from a large European research pr…
Raising maintenance loans by only 2.8% means students will have to cut back on food and books, says reportThe Department for Education has admitted students in England face a “negative impact” from its refusal to increase support in line with inflation…