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Study finds dropout rate has remained static over course of decade

The wild variations in the proportions of top grades awarded by different departments and universities must be addressed, says Bernard Rivers

Sara Ladrón de Guevara and Anthony Monaco on why institutions should collaborate with their neighbours to develop ideas and solve local problems

Campus safe spaces are bad for democracy and open debate, but academics must respond to the genuine concerns they represent, says James Wicks

Ivy League institution revoked offers to 10 students after learning they had mocked sexual assault and made racist comments 

Hong Kong student leader defends call to stop vigil in honour of victims of 1989 pro-democracy protests

Publication of data showing long-term graduate earnings by discipline has huge potential to improve higher education, says Jack Britton

New leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, Andrew Scheer, promises research grant cuts to universities that offer safe spaces or speaker bans, says Creso Sá

The fashionable idea that reading novels could improve students’ fellow feeling bears little scrutiny, says Seán Williams

Annual survey of 14,000 UK undergraduates explores reasons for underachievement of black and ethnic minority learners

Contentious questions about sexuality and gender need to be discussed robustly but respectfully, academic argues

While participation has continued to grow under £9,000 fee regime, researchers argue efforts to widen access would be helped by abolition of fees

Despite all that’s been done to improve doctoral study, horror stories keep coming. Here three students relate PhD nightmares while two academics advise on how to ensure a successful supervision

The Deutschlandstipendium, which sponsors students with a mixture of public and private funding, has disappointed some critics

Dragan Gasevic looks at how learning analytics can be used to support the student experience as a tool for learning gain

Moves to privilege community service in university admissions will create even more social justice warriors when what we need are more deep thinkers, argues Alexander Zubatov

Eliminating cheating services, even if it were possible, would do nothing to address students’ and universities’ lack of interest in learning, says Stuart Macdonald

Terry Dray explains what other institutions can learn from Liverpool John Moores University’s recent review of career development services

Colleges must lead students in critical thinking ‘not protect them’, says one leader

Labour MP and Corbyn critic Wes Streeting poses question of whether ‘bold’ pledge will boost student turnout

Undergraduate student numbers at for-profit colleges grows almost 20 per cent between 2013 and 2015

The need to accommodate foreign students undermines domestic practices, says Lincoln Allison, spying parallels between UK universities and global sports bodies such as Fifa

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Study examines the personality traits in lecturers students most like and dislike

Group of top Asian institutions aims to boost research collaboration and increase mobility

Cap on student visas and more pressure on universities to ensure recruits are ‘genuine’ seen as potential measures

John Morgan looks at errors and inadequacies in leaked plans for higher education

International Higher Education Group aims to reduce costs and increase choice for international students eyeing up Western universities

Overemphasis of traditional academic silos is not preparing young people to address the environmental, political and biomedical abyss opening up before us, says Eric Macfarlane

‘Peculiar’ experiment fails to find link between physical appearance and grades

Australian policymakers have moved to link funding to student retention. But they must accept that desirable trends don’t all arise in perfect harmony, says Andrew Norton

Students are being hoodwinked into enrolling on ‘trendy’ new degree programmes that are, according to one concerned academic, little more than a marketing exercise

Being required to document interactions with troubled students in customer relations management systems is just a distraction from addressing their problems, says Susan D’Agostino

Chinese students’ calls for the Tibetan leader to be barred from speaking at the University of California, San Diego show a flawed conception of accommodation and respect, says Ben Medeiros 

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Outrage among Kiwis over Australian government move

Forget affirmative action, says Sami Mikhail; universities are right to recruit on academic merit

Imaginative method is detailed in sector ombudsman’s latest annual report

While not all student-supervisor relationships end in disaster, permitting them infringes women’s right to education, participation and a safe work environment, say five female academics 

Universities must not be complacent about freedom of speech, and need to ensure students use it to drive change, says Bill Rammell 

Proposals to introduce tuition fees in Finland met with resistance

John Morgan looks at the political rewards and risks for Labour on student and sector funding

Conservative peer attacks ‘brightest and best’ language used by ministers

A right-wing philosopher in Texas tells John Gill how a minority of students can shut down debates and intimidate lecturers – and why he backs Trump

Students who grew up disinviting ideological difference on Facebook will naturally want to do the same on campus, says Darren Linvill

Universities should not be neutral about attempts to ‘no platform’ speakers. They must defend students’ right to hear orthodoxy challenged, says Steve Fuller

‘Centrist’ candidate wins majority in first round of ballot

Vince Cable and Julian Huppert back party to overtake Labour in ‘university seats’

Report finds that the average undergraduate pays twice the amount recommended by an affordability benchmark 

New target aims for 13.2 per cent of students to undertake international placements by 2020 

European Union students enrolling next year will pay the same fees as UK students

‘Overwhelming’ evidence that initiatives targeted at disadvantaged groups increase access

John Morgan looks at reports PM may ‘soften’ stance on students and net migration figures 

Serious novels promote the trust and people skills that societies need. They should be required reading for all degrees, says Peter Taylor-Gooby

With overcrowded lecture theatres the norm in undergraduate education today, online delivery has entirely replaced lectures and seminars in some institutions. So where to in the coming decade? Warren Bebbington outlines a survival strategy for the increasingly unaffordable traditional university

Academics shine light on contemporary research themes in classic book

Universities New Zealand highlights university entry gap between ethnic groups