Leading universities urged to take no more than 10% of students from private schools
University Guide 2025
Methodology behind the 2025 Guardian University Guide
How the US supreme court’s affirmative action ruling unleashed anti-DEI cases
August 2024
Higher-tariff universities admit 13% more UK school-leavers than 2023, figures show
Pupils achieve best A-level results in a generation but regional gap widens
English universities face autumn ‘tipping point’ as financial crisis looms
Top UK universities have thousands of unfilled places before A-level results
July 2024
Ucas personal statements weren’t read by academics
Letter: A reader who was a university programme director responds to the news that personal statements are to be scrapped
Farewell, Ucas personal statements: I won’t miss your hackneyed, cliche-ridden prose
Max Fletcher
These hated essays are going to be scrapped. It’s good news for those who can’t afford private tutors – and for those who had to read them, says writer Max Fletcher
Ucas plans to drop personal statements for UK university applicants
Social mobility experts welcome change in which students will instead be asked to answer three questions
March 2024
Oxbridge must help pupils from state schools succeed, college head says
Helen Mountfield, principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, hopes to raise £100m to help improve outcomes
February 2024
UK universities to review international student admissions after recruitment controversy
Move comes after accusations of lowering entry standards to foreign applicants who pay far higher tuition fees
January 2024
DfE to investigate claims of bad practice in recruitment of international students
British students not being ‘squeezed out’ by overseas applicants, say universities
October 2023
‘I didn’t think I’d get an interview’: students start first Oxford-wide foundation year
Oxford University says it will not base admissions on botched online tests
September 2023
University Guide 2024
Is the Russell Group still relevant?
University Guide 2024
Methodology behind the 2024 Guardian University Guide
August 2023
Equality depends on education. England’s class of 2023 have suffered a grave injustice over A-level results
Lee Elliot Major
Exam grading has plunged an unlucky cohort into a scramble for university, after a schooling ruined by Covid
