Black members鈥 committee boycotts UCU over 鈥榚ntrenched racism鈥
Panel claims its efforts have been met with 鈥榬esistance, indifference, procedural setbacks and deliberate stalling鈥, in wake of聽THE聽article alleging discrimination against black workers

Panel claims its efforts have been met with 鈥榬esistance, indifference, procedural setbacks and deliberate stalling鈥, in wake of聽THE聽article alleging discrimination against black workers

Scope for pushback: Amid intense scrutiny and political assaults, US universities are silent. Why?

We won鈥檛 stop until staff and members in every branch, every department and every team feel that they are treated fairly and equally, says Jo Grady

University of Oxford professor Simon Marginson says populist targeting of higher education by Trump, DeSantis and others is finding favour with both graduates and non-graduates alike

Across the Western world, decades of growth in university participation are being repainted as a policy error as funding woes come to a head

Anti-Jewish hate reaches record high as vast majority of cases recorded by Community Security Trust come after 7 October

Polar scientist on working with David Attenborough, capturing nuance in diversity debates and the continued importance of the Open University

Growing scrutiny of empty departmental workplaces has revived the fraught debate over whether academics should retain their own assigned office

Opposition scenting power聽urged to 鈥榮how political leadership鈥 in face of Tory pressure to scrap or scale back post-study work route

Hepi paper says rents need to come down by about 30聽per cent in response to cost-of-living crisis

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media

Reports of the demise of university league tables are greatly exaggerated. Our rankings are growing in size and influence, writes David Watkins

Ucas data reveals drop in application rate among UK school-leavers and significant declines in international interest from key sectors, with least selective institutions bearing brunt

The feted urban sociologist Richard Sennett tells Matthew Reisz about how his former career as a cellist inspired聽his latest trilogy of books, why his ideal university would be more night school than...

The political maelstrom around US universities鈥 handling of pro-Palestinian protests reflects a right-wing campaign that is increasingly challenging higher education鈥檚 autonomy to determine its...