The rumpus at UCL is part of a wider trend as mass tertiary education spreads and demand for elite colleges rises

Cash-rich technology companies are morphing into investment banks

The deal struck between Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats paves the way for the chancellor’s third grand coalition

Has the Indian PM’s reform programme made a difference to the country’s economic trajectory?

The UK prime minister returned home on Friday touting billions of pounds of deals

Both main political parties are in a funk

The lesson of this year's gathering in Davos is the increasing fragility of states confronted by changes wrought by technology

The revelations of a men-only dinner at which hostesses were groped call for a fundamental cultural change in business

German investors clutching £112m of Schuldscheine are among the victims of the infrastructure specialist’s collapse

Once class and economics were the familiar drivers of national debate and politics. Now, these have been replaced by values

Tight oversight is set to give way as financial watchdogs pare back on assertive enforcement

The network is in much better shape than its critics would have you think — but some things can be improved

The real issue is that Tokyo’s deficits are the mirror image of huge private sector surpluses

The threat by Amazon to move into the business of selling prescription drugs is shaking up the wider healthcare sector