Jessica Shepherd

The conferring of a "university college" title on a business signals the British government’s desire to expand the private sector in higher education.

On Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 12-year-old Abigail Appetey is forced to miss her classes at primary school to sell fried fish door-to-door.

The UK may be missing out on talented EU research students because of a refusal to pay living costs.

When it was suggested that I might forgo the use of email for a day my response went something like this: "Are you actually kidding me?" My alarm was well founded. Checking my…

A<i> Guardian</i> investigation has exposed how easy and cheap it is for British university students to get small businesses to do their coursework. We posed as Josephine, a…

Nur knew that as a Bedouin — an Arab nomad — living­ in poverty in Israel’s Negev desert, the likelihood of going to university was remote. As a woman, it was almost unheard of.…

If there is one thing Professor Melissa Leach has no time for, it is “bullshit research”. The social anthropologist jokes with her husband, fellow anthropologist James Fairhead,…