4 h. ago Rachel Reeves urged to scrap international student levy over concerns for growth

Business groups slammed ‘university tax’ and warned a rise in fees will have ‘unintended consequences’ for the UK

Society

11 h. ago University student faced quitting course after staff member sublet room she didn't own

'This has really, really messed up his final year off university because of absolutely no fault of his own'

Politics

28 h. ago Levy on international students’ tuition fees not in best interest of UK, says leader of top university

Duncan Ivison, president of Manchester University, says government’s 6% surcharge plan will ‘hurt the sector’A levy on tuition fees paid by international students is “wrong”, will “hurt the sector” and is “not in the long-term interests” of the UK, according to the vice-chancellor of one of the country’s leading universities.Duncan Ivison, who took over as president and vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester (UoM) last year, was speaking ahead of the budget later this month when the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is expected to flesh out her plans for the proposed 6% surcharge. Continue reading...

Politics

42 h. ago Former UCL academic is reported to police after 'accusing Jews of killing monk to use his blood to bake bread'

Dr Samar Maqusi, also accused Jews of controlling international finance during a lecture she delivered to Students for Justice in Palestine society at University College London (UCL).

Events

50 h. ago UCL academic is reported to the police after 'accusing Jews of killing monk to use his blood to bake bread'

Dr Samar Maqusi, also accused Jews of controlling international finance during a lecture she delivered to Students for Justice in Palestine society at University College London (UCL).

Events

3 d. ago 'We can't help more students come to our university without wealthy donors'

The University of Manchester has launched a £400m fundraising campaign as the higher education sector faces 'tough' financial times

Politics

4 d. ago Trump says he knows what MAGA wants better than anybody after backlash over Chinese student visas

Donald Trump has responded to backlash over the increased enrolment of Chinese students at US colleges, which has been critiqued by some as not a “pro-MAGA position”.

Politics

5 d. ago Returned after 115 years... the plate stolen from Cambridge University college by mischievous student

The plate was pilfered from Gonville & Caius College by law and history student Gordon Stewart Wimbush after he joined the university in 1908

Politics

5 d. ago Trump doubles down on plan to bring in 600,000 Chinese college students: ‘I know what MAGA wants’

Trump battered away criticism from MAGA supporters by claiming that the movement was his ‘idea’

Politics

5 d. ago Murderer has gruesome decision to make 35 years after raping and killing student

Harold Wayne Nichols was given the death penalty in 1990 after raping and murdering Karen Pulley, a 21-year-old student at Chattanooga State University in Tennessee

Events

7 d. ago University calls Charles Dickens a racist for damning 1851 essay criticising China

The University of Manchester is warning students that an 1851 essay co-authored by Charles Dickens 'expresses racist views, particularly against Chinese people.'

Culture

8 d. ago Students and faculty at over 100 US universities protest against Trump’s attacks

Student, national and local groups across US organized day of action to condemn Trump’s assault on academic freedomStudents, faculty and staff at more than 100 campuses across the US rallied against the Trump administration’s assault on higher education on Friday – the first in a planned series of nationwide, coordinated protests that organizers hope will culminate in large-scale students and workers’ strikes next May Day and a nationwide general strike in May 2028.The day of action was organized under the banner of Students Rise Up, a network of students including both local groups and national organizations like Sunrise Movement and Campus Climate Network. Students were joined by faculty and educational workers’ unions like the American Association of University Professors and Higher Education Labor United. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago You don’t need a master’s degree to see Britain depends on foreign students

Editorial: The government’s effort to drive down the number on student visas coming to study in this country is misguided and self-defeating — it will do untold damage to our universities and communities

Politics

1 week ago More than third of UK students have no sex at university says new research

A shock study found that nearly three-quarters of students are either completely celibate or sleeping with just one person - bringing an end to the one night flings

Politics

1 week ago Court lets stand ruling that says UC's ban on hiring students without legal status is discriminatory

The California Supreme Court has let stand a lower-court ruling that the University of California’s policy barring students without legal status in the US from campus jobs is discriminatory and must be reconsidered

Events

1 week ago Greta Thunberg backs UK university student who fears for his safety after visa sponsorship revoked

Pro-Palestinian activist Usama Ghanem has been indefinitely suspended from King’s College London. Jeremy Corbyn, Your Party co-leader, labelled the move ‘deeply disturbing’

Politics

1 week ago Meet the British shot put champion doubling up as a bobsleigh pilot with an eye on Milan 2026

Having won her third British shot put title in four seasons in the summer, Adele Nicoll also has a Winter Olympic dream – and admits she’s ‘terrible for wanting to do everything’Walking through the University of Bath’s vast sports complex to Britain’s only bobsleigh push-start track, a momentary silence is broken by the thwack of a ball and hearty cheers from excited adolescent spectators.It is the first Wednesday afternoon – when inter-university sport takes centre stage – of the academic year, and Adele Nicoll is reflecting on how her own undergraduate days inadvertently led her to this point. Nicoll, then a sport and exercise science student at Cardiff University, had an eye on making it as an international shot putter, but not to the detriment of enjoying all aspects of university life; she played as hard as she worked. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago University of Virginia students told to run and hide amid reports of 'active shooter'

UVA's police division sent out an alert just after 3pm on Monday telling students to run, hide, and fight amid the active shooting situation.

Events

1 week ago University of Virginia LIVE: 'Active shooter on loose' as students told to HIDE

Police issued an alert suggesting there was an 'active attacker' on the loose on University of Virginia in Charlottesville following reports of a gun near Shannon Library

Society

1 week ago Scrap tourist tax, university foreign student levy and cut stamp duty on shares to boost London, Reeves urged

Scrap tourist tax, university foreign student levy and cut stamp duty on shares to boost London, Reeves urged  London Evening Standard

Society