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Review finds only one in three institutions publishes guidance on alternative doctorate format

Labour leader hits back at Rishi Sunak’s claim that higher education expansion target was one of ‘great mistakes of last 30 years’

‘Astonishing demand’ to suspend book launch over claims that its essays ‘delegimitise trans people’ shows activists have been ‘emboldened’, say editors

Hesa research seeks to establish whether area-based measures of deprivation accurately reflect the challenges faced by specific households

New polling shows strong support for degrees from parents, while Tory tactic may be of ‘near-zero interest’ to public

Start of classes pushed back, with longer postponement probable, as reservist staff, academics and students called up

Voters have little enthusiasm for paying higher taxes to fund universities, new polling finds

Matt Western calls sustainable sector funding ‘a big ask’ as two vice-chancellors back graduate tax

Sutton Trust finds limited progress on opening up leading universities to less affluent school-leavers

New director promises political impartiality and a thorough consultation as English regulator gets ready to promote and protect expression on campus

Census data on higher education qualifications, which is broken down by age and sex for the first time, shows that 60 per cent of some age groups graduated from university

While academics may be dismissive, the process helps their professional colleagues recognise their own scholarly contributions, say four of them