Universities

International students can save Britain’s broke universities

They can find money at home, or they can find it abroad. But if they don’t find it, some are…

By Jonn Elledge

The Premier League must give more to grassroots clubs

Also this week: Rachel Reeves as Elmer Fudd, a chocolate windfall, and why England’s landmarks are crumbling.

By Katy Shaw

The curse of the Oxbridge reject

As offers and rejections go out across the country, Britain needs to learn that Oxford and Cambridge are just universities.

By Bethany Elliott

The intolerant age

How creeping censorship captured Britain’s institutions.

By Hannah Barnes

Mezna Qato: “Without our libraries and universities, how will we tell the story of Gaza?”

The only way to lose Gaza is to stop listening to the Palestinians of Gaza.

By Mezna Qato

Student power

Published in the wake of the 1968 uprising at Columbia, Immanuel Wallerstein’s University in Turmoil holds critical lessons for the…

By Bruce Robbins

On the Oxbridge barricade

Pro-Palestinian protesters at British universities are obscuring their own message.

By Harry Lambert

How the student Gaza protests went global

Pro-Palestine protests are proliferating across Western universities – but only the US has responded with military-grade police violence.

By Jill Filipovic

Protest nation

Pro-Palestine activists at Columbia show an America unable to come to terms with its own helplessness.

By Lee Siegel

Britain is divided by educational status

The crisis at Goldsmiths is symbolic of what is going wrong in our universities.

By Jonathan Rutherford

Inside Columbia’s campus wars

Divisions over Israel-Palestine have morphed into a fight for free speech and thrown the Ivy League university into crisis.

By Kiran Moodley

The coalition government’s generational failure

Degrees cost four times what they did before 2012, when the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats increased the amount universities could…

By Harry Lambert

Academics can no longer speak freely

Solving this crisis in higher education should transcend the division between the right and the left.

By Edward Skidelsky

Seema Malhotra: The Tories are short-changing young people

The shadow skills minister on Labour's jobs agenda, reforming apprenticeships, and valuing creative subjects.

By Sarah Dawood

The SNP has been mugged by reality on tuition fees

The Scottish education minister Jenny Gilruth has opened the door to change on university funding.

By Chris Deerin

The culture war claims Claudine Gay

How the Ivy League hearings on anti-Semitism reveal the wounded American elite.