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Policies and procedures at all universities to be investigated following ‘systemic’ issues that led to undergraduate wrongly being told he had failed course

Cost-cutting measures impacting student experience, finds OfS polling, with increased class sizes and reduced access to facilities among issues raised

Reduction in funding by Science and Technology Facilities Council would be ‘most drastic’ cut to curiosity-driven science ‘in a generation’ warn scientific leaders

Most low-performing English students will not repay loans, argues campaigner, who says more needs to be done to educate people about system

Calls for more support for people with experience of prison to access higher education as experts warn programmes being hampered by staff shortages

Scholars criticise lack of progress on restoring repository of 600,000 PhD theses more than two years after it was felled by cyberattack

Universities can produce commercially viable projects while giving the industry the sustainability and freedom to take risks on new talent, says Chris Nunn

Formal complaints have shot up in recent years, albeit from a low base. But where some see the inevitable effects of redundancies, hybrid working and an overdue crackdown on poor conduct, others perceive the abuse of the system by managers to force out awkward characters. Jack Grove reports

Further walkouts planned as part of internal row that has seen six weeks of disruption in past year alone

Financially troubled institutions pushed further into the red, with Aberdeen, Robert Gordon and Sheffield Hallam also losing money

Ucas January data show specialist institutions losing out as higher tariffs continue to grow, with proportion of ‘commuter students’ reaching nearly half

Exclusions from government funding pots exacerbating a challenging financial climate for creative institutions, which say talent pipeline for Labour’s priority sector at risk of being jeopardised