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What brings joy? This week, as part of our week of articles on #HEhappiness, academics from five disciplines address this most difficult of questions

Finance expert Martin Lewis likens government to 'illegal loan shark' on 'disastrous' threshold freeze

Raising graduate repayments bar to £25k hikes level of public subsidy for system to 45 per cent, says respected research institute 

Theresa May’s goal of achieving fee differentiation steps into ‘minefield’, sector figures warn

What brings joy? This week, as part of our week of articles on #HEhappiness, academics from five disciplines address this most difficult of questions

Stephen Toope says universities must continue to work across borders even as societies become more inward looking

Breaking free from Madrid may reduce bureaucracy for universities, but could endanger funding

John Morgan looks at Theresa May’s plans for reforms to England's system

Commission wants more comparable data on the jobs students go into, and how well their degrees prepared them

Nick Hillman makes call in book that aims to influence Conservative policy

Leeds, Southampton and Manchester among institutions downgraded by Moody's, but Cambridge keeps triple-A rating

Sir Peter Gluckman, who advises New Zealand’s prime minister, cautions scientists against overreach