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Creative arts teaching grants to be cut to zero – here are the universities losing funding
The University for the Creative Arts lost more than half its OfS teaching grant as creative and performing arts subjects received zero for 2026-27
Lola and Fitzy reveal who else would’ve been their top choice to couple up with on Love Island
Umm, I thought they only had eyes for each other
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group unis by NSS student voice scores – Oxford lowest at 67.3 per cent
Sheffield leads the Russell Group at 84.6 per cent for student voice – while Oxford scores just 67.3 per cent, the lowest of any Russell Group university in the National Student Survey 2026
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group unis by proportion of EU undergrads – LSE highest at 8.5 per cent
LSE has the highest proportion of EU undergraduates of any Russell Group university at 8.5 per cent, while Birmingham has the lowest at just 0.8 per cent, according to The Tab’s analysis of HESA data
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group unis by public funding grants – Queen’s Belfast highest, LSE lowest
Glasgow and Edinburgh receive over 14 per cent of their income from public funding grants, while Oxford and Cambridge receive just 7.4 per cent each, the joint lowest of any Russell Group university alongside LSE
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group unis by share of spending on staff – Cambridge spends the lowest
Cambridge and Oxford spend the smallest share of their budget on staff of any Russell Group university – while King’s College London allocates the most at 59.9 per cent
Ranked: Russell Group universities by student reviews – Oxford and Cambridge miss the top 20
Cambridge ranks first in the Complete University Guide but did not make StudentCrowd’s student satisfaction top 20, while Queen’s University Belfast ranked second
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group universities by interest and finance costs – Oxford pays £36.8m
Oxford pays over five times more in interest and finance costs than Cambridge, despite both being old, wealthy universities
Revealed: Nine Russell Group unis spent on restructuring last year – Queen’s Belfast at £25.4m
Cardiff spent £24.3m on restructuring linked to a voluntary severance scheme despite recording a £33.4m deficit, while 15 Russell Group universities recorded zero restructuring costs in the same year
Ranked: Uni courses by financial return – performing arts leaves you £43k poorer than non-grads
A quarter of all UK graduates will be financially worse off over their lifetime than if they hadn’t gone to university, according to new IFS research
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group unis by endowment income – Oxford at £154m, Cardiff at just £1.4m
Oxford receives over 100 times more in donations and endowment income than Cardiff – and endowments make up more than five per cent of Oxford’s total income, compared to just 0.2 per cent at Cardiff
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group universities in QS world rankings 2027 – Southampton fell 24 spots
Queen’s Belfast rose 25 places to rank 174th globally – while Southampton fell 24 to 111th, the biggest drop of any Russell Group university this year
Is it coming home? Here’s whether England is planning to host the World Cup any time soon
Surprisingly, you won’t have to break the bank to watch England play
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group universities by research income – Oxford gets £801m, LSE just £41m
Oxford makes £198m more from research grants than from tuition fees – while LSE, despite ranking third for research quality, brings in the least research income of any Russell Group university
Ranked: Russell Group universities most reliant on international tuition – LSE comes out top
LSE derives 38.8 per cent of its income from international tuition fees, nearly four times the proportion at Oxford and Cambridge
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group universities by days of cash reserves – Nottingham had just 24
Southampton had 317 days of reserves at the same point, more than 13 times Nottingham’s figure, despite both being Russell Group universities
Ranked: The Russell Group universities where students are least satisfied in 2027
Sheffield ranks only 13th overall among Russell Group universities, but its students rate it the most positively of any of the 24, according to new rankings
Ranked: All 67 Oxbridge colleges by net assets – from Trinity’s £2.4bn to Clare Hall’s £43m
Trinity College Cambridge holds more than 56 times the net assets of Clare Hall, despite both being colleges at the same university
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group vice-chancellors by pay package – the highest gets £666k
The University of Oxford’s vice-chancellor has the largest total package at £666k, which is more than double that of the University of Glasgow’s VC
Revealed: Seven Russell Group unis saw tuition income drop by over £130m despite £9,250 fees
Leeds alone saw fee income fall by nearly £54m — more than the entire annual income of some UK universities
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group universities by how much of their income they lost last year
At the worst-affected Russell Group university, the deficit is almost 10 per cent of total annual income
Revealed: The Russell Group vice-chancellors who got a pay rise the same year their unis announced redundancies
At least 12 Russell Group vice-chancellors received pay rises last year while their universities cut hundreds of academic and support staff between them
The Crash: Why were both of Mackenzie Shirilla’s appeals denied?
It could have easily been different
Ranked: UK universities with the scariest financial deficits by percentage of total income
Two fifths of unis are predicted to have a deficit this year
MAFS’ Danny Hewitt apologises for ‘repulsive’ unseen comments about female co-stars
Even his own mum was disgusted
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group universities by how terrifying their financial deficits are
Some unis need all the help they can get
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‘It’s got to be worse’: Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen creator on possible season two
I don’t know if I can handle more horror
I’m an Exeter University graduate who’s applied to 500 jobs, even pubs won’t hire me
‘In 10 or 15 years, there won’t be any people to fill senior roles’
‘It makes me so angry’: Viewers spot huge error in new Devil Wears Prada 2 trailer
One clip just doesn’t make sense in the film’s universe
Why does Rachel consider wedding pearls bad luck in Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen?
Her superstition doesn’t come from nowhere
Meet Cole Bennett, Camila Morrone’s boyfriend who’s actually a famous music video director
Cole began dating the Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen actress last year
Behind the scenes doc drops major clue Harry Potter’s grandparents will be in HBO series
We may also see more of Hermione’s parents
‘She always credits’: Charli xcx’s management on whether she stole music from co-writer
Sky Ferreira claimed ‘I have proof of everything with dates’
Bec explains the real reason behind her explosive behaviour at *that* MAFS dinner party
‘I don’t think you’ll ever see me in that bad of a state again’
These unaired arguments at MAFS Australia third dinner party make it even more dramatic
Apparently Bec wasn’t the only ‘unhinged’ one
Traffic controller may have been away from desk before fatal Air Canada plane crash struck
Only two traffic controllers were on duty
A major Stranger Things star has just been announced as lead in new Peaky Blinders show
There’s going to be two more series
The technical reason Blake Lively’s harassment claim against Justin Baldoni was dismissed
It all came down to two specific details
University of Sheffield to introduce lecture seating plans to reduce disruption
Students caught in the wrong seat twice will have to retake the module
University of Oxford to ban use of the term ‘Oxbridge’ due to negative connotations
More than three quarters of Oxford students admitted they were offended by the word
Coventry University to introduce mandatory small talk before seminars begin
Recommended conversation topics include the weather and A-level subjects
Students applying to Oxford Brookes must now sit mandatory rowing entrance exam
The policy aims to ‘re-adjust students to a culture of sporting excellence’