- Protesters into seventh day of hunger strike in support of Palestinians and in effort to demand university divestment A group of students at Yale University were on Friday into the seventh day of a hunger strike in support of...
- In her willingness to unleash state violence against student protesters, Minouche Shafik proved herself to be a willing ally to extremists The students sat on the ground and sang as police in riot gear approached them. Eventually, more...
- The prime minister says ‘we need to do much better for the younger generation’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The prime minister, Anthony...
- Minouche Shafik appeared beleaguered as House members grilled her over reported upsurge in antisemitism on campus The head of a prestigious US university clashed with members of Congress on Wednesday in highly charged hearings over a...
- The pandemic showed that remote learning is effective. It’s absurd that universities are going back to processes that exclude us Rosie Anfilogoff is the winner of the 2024 Hugo Young Award (19-25 age category) recognising young talent in...
- With rising house prices, a decade of wage stagnation and ballooning student debt, young people in Australia are living through what author Jill Filipovic describes as ‘a series of broken promises’. In episode one of this new series from...
- The scheme to incentivise students into other disciplines has failed to stem the ‘massive swell’ of demand for humanities Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Owen Magee knew how high his student...
- Arts education is essential – yet on both sides of the Atlantic, the humanities and critical thinking are under attack. With massive redundancies announced at this London institution, is it the canary in the coalmine? It is a couple of...
- Booker-winning author says course ‘shouldn’t be seen as dispensable’ as university seeks to cut 130 academic jobs The Booker prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo has criticised the “amputation” of Black British literature and queer...
- Nancy Fraser, professor of philosophy at the New School, condemned killings in Gaza carried out by the Israeli military A leading Jewish American philosopher has been disinvited from taking up a prestigious professorship at the...
- Education secretary Gillian Keegan will also squeeze funding for programmes to widen access to higher education Ministers will cut funding for performing and creative arts courses at English universities next year, which sector leaders...
- Prof Des Freedman , Michael Bassey , John Sommer and Sally Bates respond to an article about the dire state of Britain’s higher education institutions Gaby Hinsliff ( Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take...
- This year the BBC allowed nine Oxbridge colleges out of a total of 28 to compete in University Challenge, and still they did not win, writes Frank Coffield What’s going on? Despite the BBC’s best efforts, there’s no Oxbridge college in...
- Exclusive: Chris Skidmore says restrictions on international students risk a funding crisis Analysis: from boom to bust on international students The Conservative party’s “scorched earth” immigration policies risk UK universities...
- Move coincides with financial difficulties for universities arising from high inflation and freezing of domestic tuition fees Warning of over-reliance on Chinese students Rishi Sunak may not go down in history as “the man who destroyed...
- In response to Charlotte Higgins’s article on a collapse in arts funding Neil Mendoza says Arts Council England boosts cultural projects across the country; plus letters from Dr Alexis Bennett and Andrew Dailey Charlotte Higgins makes...
- City’s mayor outlines ‘internationalist’ vision in manifesto as he bids for third term in May London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan is to offer young people studying in the capital a new version of the EU’s Erasmus scheme of student exchanges...
- Graduates are more likely to migrate to the big cities. But any political benefits from this are decidedly mixed When I picture the state of the British economy outside London, it’s my sister I think of first. Born a year before me in...
- Fundamental restructuring must happen, along with an honest debate about what – and who – higher education is really for Imagine a beach before the tsunami. Out at sea, the wave is gathering force, yet on the sand people are still...
- Union says cuts will make the creative powerhouse unrecognisable and risk unprecedented industrial unrest Staff at Goldsmiths, University of London have voted to strike over plans for an “almost incomprehensible” number of redundancies ,...
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