Ethnic minority students are being "forced into medicine and law", according to the government's fair access tsar - but how true is his claim? Acco...

Up to 30,000 fewer students may have started university courses this year following the tuition fee hike, the government's fair access tsar has sugges...

Jimmy Savile has been stripped of his honorary doctorate which he was given by universities' admissions "tsar" Les Ebdon following numerous sexual ass...

The man responsible for admitting students to Cambridge has claimed allowing poorer students with lower grades into the university would be a "cruel e...

Universities are increasingly relying on fact-checking students' backgrounds in an effort to boost recruitment of bright students from disadvantaged h...

Leading universities are allocating fewer places to state school pupils, despite a government drive to improve social mobility, figures reveal. Mor...

The department for education is "marching towards the sound of gunfire", Michael Gove told a room of MPs, journalists and public figures on Tuesday, b...

Vince Cable's decision to appoint Les Ebdon as the chair of the Office for Fair Acess (OFFA) has come under fire from Tory MPs in the Commons, after t...

Vince Cable has appointed professor Les Ebdon as the next director of fair access to higher education, overruling the wishes of the Commons committee ...

Conservative MPs warned David Cameron on Monday that the government's new university access tsar will lead admissions in the "wrong direction" and be ...

David Cameron has admitted he does not possess the power to block the appointment of Les Ebdon as the new university access tsar, despite a snub by se...

Conservative MPs have snubbed Liberal Democrat Vince Cable's choice for the new university access regulator. The Commons business, innovation and s...