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  • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
    UK universities brace for A-level grade inflation

    Projections suggest colleges might have to find places for 15% more students than usual after 2021 exams cancelled

  • Monday, 22 February, 2021
    FTfmThe week’s best fund management articles
    Trinity College Cambridge to dump fossil fuel companies this year

    Oxbridge’s wealthiest institution has set a net zero target, as divestments by UK university endowments gather pace

  • Sunday, 21 February, 2021
    Property sector
    Big pension fund bets UK still a draw for overseas students

    APG is investing several hundred million pounds in college accommodation across the UK

  • Saturday, 20 February, 2021
    UK academics struggle with stricter security on China partnerships

    Universities have been accused of generating research that may benefit Beijing’s military

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    Student finance
    Students and parents pay £1bn on unused university housing

    While colleges have often given rebates during the pandemic, private landlords have not, sparking protests

  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    Life & Arts
    High fees and lockdown blues: why students are in revolt

    The pandemic has reignited disputes over the cost and value of higher education — and opened up a new frontline in the generation wars

  • Friday, 29 January, 2021
    Student finance
    Students face second year of Covid money woes

    Many balk at paying rent for unused accommodation

  • Sunday, 17 January, 2021
    Overseas students rely on UK food banks in virus jobs shutdown

    Those from poor backgrounds in countries such as India and China among worst affected

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
    Thousands of UK university students offered 50% rent reduction

    Move by Britain’s largest student accommodation provider expected to benefit 50,000 people hit by Covid curbs

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  • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
    India
    Covid piles pressure on India to embrace online degrees

    Pandemic exacerbates higher-education woes where there are too few colleges for vast population

  • Friday, 1 January, 2021
    News in-depthBrexit
    UK’s Erasmus exit prompts laments on both sides of the Channel

    Former participants say Brexit will end what many called the defining experience of their youth

  • Tuesday, 8 December, 2020
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Could your child be recruited as a money mule?

    Huge rise in online fraud sees criminals target students to spirit away the proceeds

  • Monday, 7 December, 2020
    Special ReportMoral Money: Next Generation
    Students push for university climate change divestments

    Oxford offers blueprint for selling fossil fuel assets while retaining influence over divested businesses

  • Sunday, 6 December, 2020
    Moral Money
    Weighing up business schools’ work on sustainability

    New study of academic publications raises questions about how to assess schools’ research

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    Camilla Cavendish
    Mandated ‘respect’ for others’ opinions hurts free speech

    A polite but deadly serious Cambridge university row over the issue shows the need for ‘tolerance’ instead

  • Monday, 30 November, 2020
    Sarah O'Connor
    The academic precariat deserves better

    For those reliant on short-term university contracts, work can be chaotic and uncertain

  • Monday, 30 November, 2020
    Dear JonathanJonathan Black
    My progression in academia seems permanently blocked — should I give up?

    Your questions for our expert — and readers’ advice

  • Wednesday, 25 November, 2020
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    ‘Locked down and locked in’: the pandemic plight of UK university students

    The crisis has exposed deep cracks in the country’s market-driven higher education system

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    Education
    Enrolment jumps in vocational courses as UK workers look to retrain

    Concerns about future job prospects drive interest in personal development programmes

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    Next Act
    Money Clinic Podcast: Can a second career save my retirement?

    Unable to find a job, this week’s guest is going back to university at the age of 61

  • Saturday, 14 November, 2020
    Education
    Universities seek to remain open while keeping virus at bay

    Education makes plans for large-scale testing ahead of end-of-year festive season

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    Education
    England’s university admissions could face rethink

    Offers after A-level results under consideration to ‘remove unfairness’

  • Thursday, 12 November, 2020
    Work & Careers
    Law schools act to boost students’ employability

    Courses focusing on the business world can help pupils from under-represented backgrounds

  • Wednesday, 11 November, 2020
    Mass Covid testing of UK students to be carried out in early December

    Government programmes to allow university students to travel home for festive season

  • Tuesday, 10 November, 2020
    UK schools
    Wales cancels all end-of-year exams due to Covid

    Move increases pressure on England to change policy on going ahead with GCSEs and A/S and A-levels

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