Oxbridge uplift disguises a drop in the size of average UK endowment
Institutions still ‘lag well behind’ US counterparts, which are piling on funds

Institutions still ‘lag well behind’ US counterparts, which are piling on funds

Mary Curnock Cook on what reform in England could mean for admissions

University Alliance says repayment period of 15 years under HELP UK system could plug black hole in funding system

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The second vice-chancellor of the University of Surrey, who steered his institution through the upheavals of the 1980s, has died

We speak to professor of meteorology at the University of Reading and chair of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London

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Alison Stokes on a 19th-century volcanic eruption that caused a global climate disaster

Government aims to train 60,000 students at postgraduate level over next nine years

Accurate scientific translation is vital, say Meredith Root-Bernstein and Richard Ladle

Spiralling costs and frozen domestic income mean that some universities will be ‘completely stuffed’ within three years, claims Anglia Ruskin leader

Fears of further reputational damage after licence suspensions

Welfare and gun checks are part of the shield against campus violence