More than half of Andy Burnham’s newly-announced cabinet attended the universities of Cambridge or Oxford, making it the most Oxbridge-heavy administration of recent years. Fift ...

Patrick Vallance has resigned as science minister and Liz Kendall is leaving her role as secretary of state amid rumours that their department will be disbanded by the new UK prim ...

Lucy Powell has been appointed education secretary in Andy Burnham’s government as Downing Street confirms the end of a standalone science department in Whitehall. Powell, who h ...

Staff working at the universities of Kent and Greenwich say they “still have hundreds of questions” as the official merger ...

Australia’s “unfair” tuition fee regime can be fixed without putting pressure on government coffers or inflicting politically unpalatable price hikes on future nurses and te ...

The third objection is that I have fundamentally misunderstood the nature and purpose of a doctorate. Really? For ages, there have been calls to reform the whole PhD process to be more “fit for ...

Momentum for the CJP has exploded over recent days after well-known activist and educator Sonam Wangchuk went on hunger strike in solidarity with the party. Wangchuk was on day 21 of his hunger strike ...

A flexible, agile approach to AI skills development allows faculty and students to choose the guidance, resources and learning opportunities that best fit their roles and contexts ...

When an academic role ends abruptly, through redundancy, restructuring or a contract that isn’t renewed, the loss can feel like grief. Victoria Gibbon shares a structured journaling exercise that help ...

Is higher education’s civic engagement becoming performative? Here’s how to embed it in teaching, research and governance ...

We can’t put AI back in the box. Instead, higher education needs to find a way to make students think despite it ...