In New Haven, where one in six residents is foreign born, children’s education suffers as they are afraid to step out“They took her, they took her, they took her.”Those were some of the words Cora Muñoz, the Wilbur Cross high school assistant principal, could discern while on the phone with […]

Millions of graduates are trapped by ballooning debts, as their repayments are dwarfed by the interest addedHelen Lambert borrowed £57,000 to go to university and began repaying her student loan in 2021 after starting work as an NHS nurse.Since then she has repaid more than £5,000, typically […]

Fears over the future of humanities spread amid layoffs and restructurings at scores of public and private universitiesLast month, students at Montclair State University in New Jersey held a mock funeral outside the university’s college of humanities and social sciences building. Carrying […]

Government replaces recruitment goal with plan to increase ‘education exports’ to £40bn a year by 2030Ministers are scrapping target numbers for international students in the UK and will instead focus on encouraging universities to open hubs abroad, as part of a plan to bring British education […]

Multiple survivors claim Epstein dangled admission to top universities to ensnare them in his sexual abuse networkA New York City artist who said Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell shopped her around to men is among the survivors claiming that Epstein used the lure of a university education to […]

Astrid Tuminez will step down as Utah Valley University president in May as school still reckons with Kirk’s murderAstrid Tuminez, Utah Valley University’s seventh president, will step down at the end of the semester. She announced the decision on Wednesday during a State of the University […]

Reagan appointee moves to protect those challenging arrest and deportation of pro-Palestinian activistsA federal judge described Donald Trump as an “authoritarian” and accused his administration of “an unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people” in its aggressive pursuit of […]

The Cambridge college remains committed to widening participation, says its master, Mary HockadayAs the master of Trinity Hall, I am sorry for the distress and anger caused by some of the words used in the internal memo referred to in your article (Cambridge college to target elite private schools […]

Survey by education thinktank finds ‘contradictory’ attitudes towards free speech at UK universitiesOne-third of students think Reform UK politicians should be barred from speaking on university campuses, according to a survey of student attitudes towards free speech that organisers described […]

Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rightsSeveral faculty groups have denounced the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain information about Jewish professors, staff and students at the University of Pennsylvania – including […]

Joseph Oakley says the Cambridge University college risks returning to an admissions culture that rewards advantage rather than potential, while Daisy Shaw urges state students not to give up the fight. Plus a letter from Prof Douglas RobinsonAs a comprehensive-school-educated alumnus of Trinity […]

Readers respond to Prof Shitij Kapur’s argument that having a UK university degree is no longer a ‘passport to social mobility’Prof Shitij Kapur’s argument that the UK has a “surfeit” of graduates and that degrees have shifted from a “passport” to a mere “visa” for social […]

Readers respond to an article by Robyn Vinter in which she argues that it’s not easy being an English northerner surrounded by southernersI was born in Barnsley, my father a coalminer. After Reading University, I moved to London and made a career in advertising for 40 years. My accent’s […]

Trinity Hall’s plan to target elite schools sends the message that privilege equals talent, when the reality is that poorer students are already on the back footA Cambridge college’s plan to target students from some of the country’s most elite private schools has struck a nerve. As reported […]

Austin Peay State University will also pay theater and dance professor Darren Michael $500,000 in settlement Austin Peay State University has reinstated a professor who was fired for his social media post after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The Tennessee school is also paying […]

Alastair Campbell joins graduates and social mobility charities in criticism of Trinity Hall’s new policyTrinity Hall graduates and leading social mobility charities have called on the University of Cambridge college to scrap its controversial efforts to actively recruit students from elite […]

Exclusive: Trinity Hall’s new policy described as a ‘slap in the face’ for state-educated students A Cambridge college is to target the recruitment of students from elite private schools, interrupting decades of efforts to boost access for state-educated and disadvantaged pupils, the Guardian […]

Ministers promised a ‘change of approach’, but their new tax could tip weaker institutions over the edgeEducation opens doors, and the expansion of higher education begun under New Labour means that millions of young people who would not previously have gone from school to university have now […]

University undergraduates are forming northern societies, but in other circumstances we find different ways to be ourselvesOf course they weren’t being mean, but each time my university friends jokingly echoed my Leeds-accented “no” with a noise that is perhaps best approximated as […]

Lucy Morville, from Burnley, thought most students would be from the north and felt ‘culture shock’ surrounded by southernersLike many students from the north, Lucy Morville says she felt “culture shock” at being surrounded by southerners when she arrived at university. But she said the […]