Latest UK sector pay offer ¡®as far as we can go¡¯, say employers Leaders warn more universities likely to face financial difficulties in coming months as pay stretched to ¡®limits of affordability¡¯ By Tom Williams 27 January
Working hours plan ¡®sends mixed messages¡¯ on overseas students Reported proposal to let international students take on more part-time work criticised as ¡®short-sighted¡¯ By Patrick Jack 27 January
Nobelist and ex-vaccines chief join newly established Aria Sir David MacMillan and Dame Kate Bingham join board as ¡®high-risk, high-reward¡¯ starts work By Chris Havergal 27 January
English HE bill anticipated with focus on lifelong loans Government said to be aiming for ¡®uncontroversial¡¯ legislation on LLE, with future of plans to limit student entry unclear By John Morgan 27 January
Germany¡¯s ¡®exploited¡¯ student assistants waiting weeks to be paid Early taste of academic precarity reported in biggest-ever survey of student-employees, although rectors¡¯ conference questions reliability of a union-commissioned study By Ben Upton 27 January
¡®Conflict-seeking¡¯ OfS vows to reset engagement with universities Chief executive Susan Lapworth says regulator will ¡®respond positively and practically¡¯ to recommendations from highly critical report By Jack Grove 26 January
Regional and gender gaps in English enrolment reach record levels Participation keeps going up, but significant equality issues remain By Patrick Jack 26 January
Improved pay offer swiftly rebuffed by unions as strikes loom Unions ¡®disappointed¡¯ and say ¡®marginally improved¡¯ rise ranging from 5 per cent to 8 per cent would not fix sector¡¯s problems By Tom Williams 26 January
Quality Assurance Agency ¡®not satisfactory¡¯, regulator claims Agency rebuts Office for Students report which ¡®substantially misrepresents¡¯ role in assessing higher education providers, as major rift exposed By Tom Williams 26 January
Anger as social sciences lose cash to STEM under REF rule change Sciences gain ?145 million that would have gone to humanities and social sciences under old system By Jack Grove 26 January
UK students increasingly skipping meals as cost of living rises New polling highlights ¡®scandalous¡¯ impact of financial pressures on student life By Tom Williams 26 January
Degree apprenticeships: a great UK invention that needs better nurture Amid growing global interest, policy must be driven by evidence, rather than knee-jerk reactions to loud voices, says Raheel Nawaz By Raheel Nawaz 26 January
