Alfie Denness, Policy Adviser & Almendra Guzman Rivas, Policy and Data Analyst discuss why subject take up isn't all about student choice - curriculum requirements, subject availability and prior atta...

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A unit in London’s Wandsworth prison has been transformed using methods from Sweden and Norway that prioritise rehabilitation over retribution

For six years the University of Kent cut jobs, closed subjects, sold financial breathing space and promised recovery. It spent £29.4 million restructuring itself and awarded at least £1.9 million o…

Waning support for basic research threatens Britain’s technology ambitions

A new study, co-led by neuroscientists at King’s College London, University College London and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI), will investigate how neurons can protect themselves from toxic protein accumulation, with implications for neurodegenerative diseases and ageing.

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

Decision to close department signals Burnham government wants ‘fresh start’ on science funding, says ex-ministerial adviser

Balance in applications that existed before £9,000 fees has ‘completely disappeared’, according to new analysis

Students tend towards safer, more familiar overseas study destinations so how can educators encourage them to make bolder, more adventurous choices? Lucas Lixinski explores this question

The far right leader’s career is not the issue: it’s whether a politician with her record has a legitimate right to seek office, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

To help cure Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, we need to understand the mechanisms through which it damages the brain – including how the toxic build-up of proteins inside neurons even...

Study finds those who speak two languages have brains that appear around six years younger than those who speak one

Jim Dickinson tracks three years of course openings and closures across the Discover Uni dataset – and finds the losses concentrated in the places and subjects that had least to begin with

Secretary of State Liz Kendall MP announced a new charter at King’s, which will support women in research – aiming to put an end to the choice of prioritising a career or family life.

New league table celebrates the English schools with the most extensive language provision. The Higher Education Policy Institute has compiled a new league table of schools based on official Departmen...

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...

Understanding SHAPE graduate trends, the skills graduates develop, and how they contribute to the economy and society

King’s College London is saddened to hear of the death of King’s alumna, Maureen Duffy FKC (English, 1956), author of more than 30 published works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays.

This British Academy report reveals that many parts of the UK are becoming subject cold spots – areas with no provision in a subject within a commutable distance. These are often in rural, coastal or ...

As more PhD holders compete for limited university jobs, many are reconsidering the appeal of industry careers

Contraction of modern languages provision is often painted as a response to falling demand. For Ana de Medeiros and Marcela Cazzoli, if you look across the whole education system then HE starts to loo...

French cinema has long inspired people to fall in love not only with a place, but with a language and culture too. In our latest blog, Ana de Medeiros, co-author of Complete French: Beginner to Interm...

New flagship university-based research centres may signal end of intentional sidelining of pedagogy academics

Our News & Articles ← Go Back L-R: Karen Ruddock, Director, PPLI; Kerry McCall Magan, British Council Ireland; Kara Owen, British Ambassador to Ireland; Minister for Education and Youth, Hildegarde Na...

Why merge and why now? James Coe deconstructs the big news on King’s College London and Cranfield University

Specialist postgraduate institution will become part of London behemoth under new plans

Modern societies need universities that connect discovery with application. We think we can do this much better together, say Karen Holford and Shitij Kapur

This study aimed to investigate how individuals’ motivation for creativity and creative personality can be predicted by their plurilingual and pluricultural experiences. To test the research hypoth...

More than 250 students have been able to learn a foreign language alongside their art history degree thanks to collaboration between King’s and the Courtauld Institute.