An anti-extremism organisation has blamed "inaccurate" newspaper headlines for creating a public backlash in which the group was accused of leading a "witch hunt" against Muslim students.

Student leaders hit out at Student Rights after it published a report titled 'gender segration on university campuses', which...

A representative of York University's student union has described feminism as "nonsense" and launched a Twitter "attack" against a feminist student.

Mike Anstey, the international student president at York University Student Union (YUSU), focused his Twitter tirade on student Helena Horton, a member of York's feminist group.

According...

A student who founded a feminist society at her university and was verbally attacked by a "men's rights" group has described the abuse as "deeply repulsive".

Alex Wilson, an undergraduate and president of the University of York Feminists group, was the target of a Facebook page called the Men's Rights...

Muslim students have lashed out at claims in a study that extremists are segregating and denigrating women, saying they are being "increasingly demonised", while the NUS has condemned it as a "witch hunt".

The study by Student Rights, which links extremism with gender segregation on campus calling it...

A private dinner hosted by Oxford University to celebrate its controversial new partnership with oil company Shell was dramatically gatecrashed by protesters campaigning against the "irresponsible" deal.

The uninvited guests, who were part of a larger protest against Shell financing a new Earth Sciences laboratory, say they were...

Michael Gove has incurred the wrath of an army of angry Twilight fans after rubbishing Stephenie Meyer's hit series, saying he'd rather his children read Middlemarch.

In a speech at Brighton College on Thursday, the education secretary told his audience: "Too many children are only too...

A student activist who was asked by the Home Office to "prove" he was gay in order to avoid deportation to Senegal where he faced persecution, has been granted asylum in the UK.

Serigne Tacko Mbengue, known as "Tacko", fled his home country, where it is illegal to...

A students' leader has implored the government to stop treating international students as a "political football" following the Queen's Speech which laid out proposals for tougher crackdowns on immigrants.

Measures to control immigration are at the heart of the government's legislative agenda for the coming year,...

Angry students at the University of London have vowed to fight an "illegitimate" decision to shut their student union made by university officials.

The university (UoL) voted to close the union on Friday, a move described by the vice president of the student union as a "disgrace" and "destructive". The...

We all love to moan about the NHS but one nursing student "frightened" by the "unrelenting bad press" took a stand at the body's annual congress to defend her profession.

Molly Case, a 24-year-old from South London, who's studying at the Royal College of Nursing, read her "Nursing the Nation"...

York University's student union has refused for a second time to officially recognise a feminist society, leaving students angry, frustrated and excluded.

Students campaigning for the York University Feminist Society (FemSoc) to be ratified by the student union have vowed to fight on, accusing union workers of being...

A student union officer has accused his fellow students of "scabbing" by hosting a Macmillan Cancer charity event for which Starbucks provided free coffee.

Edwin Clifford-Coupe called for University College London (UCL) to reject using Starbucks at the fundraiser, which was taking place on May Day, due to

Students in the UK have been urged to campaign to pressure Swaziland to free an NUS president and human rights campaigner who has been arrested and reportedly tortured.

Maxwell Dlamini has been charged with sedition against the Swaziland government after taking part in a Swaziland Youth Congress (SWAYOCO) rally earlier...

Feminism on campus is still taken as a joke, many students feel, with one describing the cause as " laughed at, mocked and generally ridiculed".

Ahead of HuffPost UK's discussion at Cambridge Union about modern day feminism, which will feature Claire Perry MP, Julia Simpson, chief of staff...

While parents and teachers are looking to politicians for the latest on school and education, the young are opening their eyes - and ears - to Suli Breaks, the spoken word poet taking YouTube by storm.

The "twenty something"-year-old is rapidly becoming a voice for young people trapped...

Oxford students have had their plans to display a living shark in a tank as entertainment for a summer ball shot down by their college, over fears of animal mistreatment.

Somerville College told The Last Ball event's organisers it was "inappropriate" to have a shark at the event, adding the...

Poorer students who achieve top marks in their GCSE exams will receive a "well done" letter from ministers, it has been revealed, prompting accusations the government is patronising poorer pupils.

In the proposed letter, universities minister David Willetts has also said he would urge pupils to think about going to...

The London School of Economics has hit back at students who accused the university of putting them at risk after they travelled to North Korea with a crew of undercover BBC journalists.

Six of the 10 students who made the trip to North Korea wrote an open letter to LSE...

Margaret Thatcher was a figure who divided a generation, but, as thousands flocked to St Paul's for the former prime minister's funeral, what did she mean for younger generations?

Amid the scores of mourners, onlookers and occasional protester, there was a handful of students and young people who attended, many...

The Daily Mail's controversial front page on convicted murderer Mick Philpott has renewed the discussion on whether press regulation is justified.

In the wake of the reaction to the tabloid's splash, which was described as a "uniquely revolting piece of work", some have now said the...