A leading academic who said Brexit would dramatically reduce the British university sector’s standing in global rankings has admitted the claim was “plucked out of the air”.

Students are demanding that Cambridge University “decolonise” further subjects, warning that courses which “elevate” white writers “risk perpetuating institutional racism”.

The role of higher education in the UK and U.S. is to counter “uninformed views on immigration” and fight racism, the next leader of Australia’s universities has said.

The Guardian newspaper has pinned the blame for Britain’s universities sliding down the global rankings on Brexit.

Two thirds of university students don’t know when the referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union (EU) is taking place, and up to 200,000 may miss out on a chance to vote, a survey has found. Almost two million

Bosses at Aston University in Birmingham are calling for the UK to remain a member of the European Union (EU) – but have admitted they only want the UK to stay in because they receive money from Brussels. In a recent

Some will say the relentlessly left wing and snobbish attitude of British universities is a recent phenomenon, but the story of Margaret Thatcher’s snub from the University of Oxford shows otherwise. A lot has been written about the ideological purity