Europe

Fund research grants not loans, Europe’s universities tell Brussels

IFS analysis says bringing back maintenance grants would also lead to little or no change for lowest-earning graduates across their lifetime 

Jean-Claude Juncker and Tibor Navracsics on how the EU hopes to make it easier for educators to work across Europe

The first Times Higher Education ranking measuring universities in the 13 nations that have joined the EU post-2000 will launch at the event 

Budget must address ‘scandal’ of debt burden faced by poorest students by linking fees to family income, says education charity

Largest amount of cash handed out by research councils overall since 2014-15 brings an end to negative trend

Funding fell for many of the UK’s top institutions despite increase in overall amount of cash granted by research councils

University of Westminster music academic on fighting with punks, boosting Peter Andre’s career and pioneering ‘classical reggae’

Ahead of his Vincent Briscoe Lecture, Bill Durodié calls on researchers to engage with issues of great social and technological ambition

Advertising Standards Authority upholds complaints about assertions from six institutions

Professor finds 86 English-language journals on the sector and lists the 28 ‘most reputable’

University and College Union warns Russell Group institution will struggle to raise teaching quality while cutting jobs