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Teenagers from deprived areas with slow broadband may be less likely to use internet for studies, and hence less likely to see academically orientated promotions

Ministers say most prestigious universities should ¡®go furthest¡¯ as they launch new guidelines

Cutting the number of people who benefit from a university education will do nothing to improve the lot of those who do not, says Graham Galbraith

¡®Anything goes¡¯ approach does not serve doctoral candidates, universities or funders, say researchers

While dozens are charged with fraud, ¡®pay to play¡¯ remains accepted practice at elite US institutions

Patchy information obscures outcomes for students taught by subcontractors

False claims of sporting and academic abilities used to enter colleges including Yale and Stanford, say investigators

Lucy Cavendish College to go co-educational and abolish its minimum entry age of 21

Proportion of places taken by disadvantaged students shrinks as level of qualification rises

Universities¡¯ vocal opposition to government plans for vastly increased international fees has yielded only minor concessions, says Juliette Torabian 

Student vloggers are the perfect 'weapon to target university applicants', increasingly regarded as more powerful than other marketing methods

John Ross examines the state of cross-study and collaboration between Australia and its neighbours in the East

The difficulties even of obtaining a scholarship to study in the West amount to systemic exclusion, says Rudrani Dasgupta

US universities must think harder about how to make the poorer students they admit feel like full community members, says Anthony Abraham Jack

Andres Manuel L¨®pez Obrador¡¯s controversial proposal could force lawmakers to reconsider the legal age of adulthood

Data analysis from THE suggests different drivers are coming together to alter universities¡¯ UK-international mix

Admissions officers wrote of favouring ¡®brown babies¡¯, campaign group reveals

English providers will have to enrol fewer privileged students if the sector is not allowed to expand, regulator says

White students from lower participation neighbourhoods account for fewer than one in 10 students at more than 70 per cent of English universities, report says

The credentialism that the late Ron Dore analysed in his seminal 1976 book has gone global, say Keith Lewin, Angela Little and Alison Wolf

Pupils in rural and coastal areas are losing out in the drive to widen participation, says charity

Durham, Imperial College and St Andrews all had a smaller share of first years from state schools in 2017-18 than Cambridge

Record rate applying among English 18-year-olds counters demographics but applications to lower-tariff institutions still struggling

Brian Schmidt says system of last-minute offers persists because it is ¡®easy¡¯ for universities

Ucas figures for UK and EU students suggest that some higher tariff universities have seen dents in intakes this year

Ucas data show that, at three institutions, three-quarters of all offers made to applicants were unconditional

Philadelphia¡¯s Thomas Jefferson University defends lawsuit launched by Princeton graduate its medical school rejected

Office for Students expresses concern that offers ¡®with strings attached¡¯ may limit students¡¯ opportunities, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds

Reforms to the French university admission system have ushered in greater selectivity in an attempt to address high dropout rates. But without adequate filtering by family background, will this disproportionately favour the elite? David Matthews reports from Paris

Hyper-selective universities help create the outrageous arrogance of some politicians. A bit of randomness in the process could lead to more humble leaders, argues David Matthews

University and College Union revives call for admissions shake-up in hope of making unconditional offers ¡®defunct¡¯

Essex institution becomes second institution to be hit by Office for Students access penalty

Standardised test scores, interviews, entrance exams, choosing the top percentage of applicants: all are used in university admissions. Ellie Bothwell asks which methods provide the most honest reflection of suitability for higher education

Academic experts have been wrong to dismiss the social mobility benefits of grammar schools as selective areas do better on university access, says Higher Education Policy Institute study

Birmingham academic says scale of issue in England is ¡®dramatically misrepresented¡¯

Raise teaching entry standards or we¡¯ll cap places, opposition tells universities

Leading figures in UK higher education warn sector will ¡®take decades to recover¡¯ from no-deal Brexit

Liz Carlile explains why the University of Sheffield has avoided giving unconditional offers to applicants who have yet to sit their exams

Equity ¡®synonymous¡¯ with excellence, creating the pre-conditions for multi-dimensional learning, conference hears

Universities told to reduce gap in entry rates between most and least disadvantaged applicants by almost half by 2024-25 and eliminate it altogether by the end of the subsequent decade

Latest Ucas figures likely to fuel criticism of system

¡®Entry gap¡¯ between men and women wider than ever before, Ucas data show

A new report shows that England, Australia and Cuba are leaders in widening participation, while Japan and Russia lag behind. But with context so important in this area, how fair is it to compare?

What single change to university practice would have the most positive and far-reaching consequences? Eight academics and thinkers give us their views

IQ tests are conceptually muddled measures of learned knowledge, self-confidence and social background, says Kenneth Richardson

Ucas analysis also reveals that such offer-making is even more widespread when ¡®conditional unconditional¡¯ offers are included 

Fewer than one in three nations set specific participation targets for disadvantaged groups, study finds

Ronald Daniels promises to take more students from poor backgrounds as observers say $1.8 billion donation would be better spent elsewhere

Japan¡¯s combined budgetary crunch and demographic squeeze has raised questions about the sustainability of its huge university sector. John Ross visits the country to investigate

Analysis of wage premiums from tertiary education suggests that the system struggles to deliver the changing skills that the economy demands, says Stephen Parker

Public institutions vow to tackle inequality at conference

Government attempts to protect regional institutions by restricting growth in capital

¡®Seriously negligent¡¯ university overcharged students on franchised course ¡®persistently¡¯

Country is on the verge of achieving its now scrapped enrolment target, years before the deadline

The Australian government has released three major data sets unusually back-to-back and full of mistakes, leading John Ross to ask: why so much, why so fast and why so erroneous?

Australia¡¯s freeze on teaching grants protected struggling institutions, not education budget

Parties must wait for a ruling on affirmative action policies, with a Supreme Court judgment likely years away

Sector representatives sceptical of ¡®kickstarter¡¯ spending

Record revenue fuelled by large foreign intakes at the country¡¯s biggest universities

Study finds current methods used for assessing disadvantage fall short