Doug Stokes: We need urgent action to help pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds get into university

White British boys face steep challenges to access – but some institutions seem too focused on ‘white privilege’ to notice.

Richard Bingley: Five pillars of higher education success driven by Conservative reforms

Since 2010 the Tories have helped to drive forward transformational change – but Labour’s half-baked plan to abolish tuition fees could put it all at risk.

Robert Halfon: How the patronising metropolitan elites wrinkled up their noses at more money for potholes

Plus: Unsung Conservative heroes. The Centre for Rocket Studies. And: why do we need the traditional, three-year University course?

Gyimah must look beyond universities to tackle student welfare challenges

From schools at one end to the job market at the other, many of the driving forces behind the campus mental health crisis aren’t vice-chancellors’ to solve.

Helen Whately and Alys Denby: University doesn’t always mean the best years of your life

For many, it’s stressful, lonely and unhappy – and occasionally deadly. Students need more help them with their mental health.

Robert Halfon: Degree apprenticeships – the key to fighting social injustice in higher education, and boosting productivity.

The new Office for Students must lead in this. There must be sanctions from the new regulator for those universities who are failing in this regard.

Jonathan Gullis: Four ideas to reassure students we are working with them, not against them

Our Party is bringing new rigour to Higher Education, but we have much more to do to win the support of young people on education policy.

The row over Toby Young’s appointment offers a preview of politics in the social media age

When a generation that grew up online starts seeking public office, it won’t just be journalists who have a trail of unguarded comments that anyone can find.

WATCH: Young must clean up his act or lose Office for Students job, says the Prime Minister

“As far as I am concerned if he were to continue to use that sort of language and talk in that sort of way he would no longer be in public office.”