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Calls for newer institutions to ‘know their place’ fail to understand the need to engage both with surrounding communities and major international challenges, argues Keith Burnett

It may already be too late to rethink assessments ahead of next admissions cycle, expert warns

Female representation now proportionate to UK academia as a whole, even if ethnic minorities still fall short

The use of examinations when other more sophisticated real-world assessment is available seems increasingly strange, says Craig Mahoney

Creator of ‘fast, free, fair’ platform hopes to help researchers shift away from journals and ‘increase meritocracy’

New guidelines have rightly rejected publisher claims that gold is the only sustainable path for open access, say Stephen Eglen and Rupert Gatti

Sector relishing support for wider dissemination of scholarship but takes issue with some of the details

Staff at troubled and historic institution ‘relieved’ by last-minute reprieve, and hopeful that institution’s traditions will live on

Highly selective institutions’ recruitment of English school-leavers up 31 per cent year-on-year, as medical students offered incentives to transfer

Gavin Williamson says universities should provide face-to-face lectures and should offer refunds if they fall short of student expectations

Proportion of school-leavers achieving top grades expected to soar

Concerns over the rising number of top marks thanks to teacher-assessed grades should not obscure the limitations of the UK’s exam system, says Nick Hillman