Schools coming under ‘intense pressure’ to enrol students as universities become ever more reliant on cross-subsidy ...

Civil liberties champion Nadine Strossen says US universities must unite to fight president’s ‘blatantly illegal’ plan to destroy institutional autonomy ...

Mounting institutional deficits form backdrop to coming Holyrood campaign as nationalist party looks to extend grip on power ...

To protect critical, context-rich thinking in HE, knowledge agency must be quickly reclaimed from Big Edtech, say Dirk Lindebaum and Gazi Islam ...

Pinker said academics are particularly susceptible to self-censoring because of their precarious employment contracts and risk of not being promoted – along with a fear of being “demonised and ...

The University of Brighton can trace its origins back to 1859 when the new School of Art opened in the coastal town, with just 110 pupils. After becoming Brighton Polytechnic and, in the late 1970s, ...

Compassion, not empathy, is the emotion that will cut through group polarisation and motivate constructive intergroup ...

Transformative’ change will not happen unless panel outlines ‘coherent’ vision for R&D, representative bodies warn ...

Almost half of the UK public think too many people go to university, according to a new poll. YouGov asked voters for their views after prime minister Keir Starmer recently scrapped the 50 per cent ...

The chief lobbyist for universities on Canada’s eastern seaboard will move half a world away, after the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) chose him as its next vice-chancellor.

Online learning often includes paired or group work, but research has found this can often provoke anxiety in students. Here’s how to listen to what they want and build the skill of collaboration ...

Can UK universities protect the right for students to voice difficult views while ensuring that no student feels that their opinions or beliefs make them a target for prejudice?