Plus: 40% of British universities are facing budget deficits this year, many of them risking closure.

Plus: Once central to the discipline, economic theory has declined in prestige in recent decades.

Plus: 50% of int’l student recruiters believe universities’ goals are not clearly defined.

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Plus: Economics should engage with philosophy, history and sociology, Angus Deaton writes.

Plus: Greece lifted its ban on private non-profit universities, thousands of students protested.

Plus: Yale University issued an apology for its past ties to the enslavement of humans.

Plus: Over the last 10 years, access to university for the poorest Britons has stagnated.