AI-driven disruptions demand a total rethink of public policies to deal with very sizeable labour market inequalities. Where to start in thinking this through?

Scottish Funding Council report also forecasts declining research income through to 2027-28

As New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield writes, staff cartoonists used to be the only ones in the building paid to point at the building. Everyone else eventually answers to the owner, but they…

There are no heroes coming to save our democracy. If we are to mount a defense, it must begin with students learning the necessary skills in the classroom.

A study of the full economic cost of providing undergraduate-level higher education and other qualifications in England.

Amid a mix of concern and excitement about AI, a 37-country survey finds pessimism about its potential impact on jobs and economic inequality.

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Visa rights canned for dependants of most students and temporary graduates, with transfers to inferior courses also banned

International students would effectively be banned from bringing family members to Australia under a long-awaited overhaul of the immigration system.

A 2025 survey across six countries finds that citizens are not in favor of deregulation and allowing AI innovation to progress unchecked.

Rotherham has 46 online vacancies for every 1,000 young people but there are 288 in Cotswold district council area

Resilience in the workplace is valued in a crisis, but how many firms do anything to develop resilient workers?

A large share of discontented Scottish voters sit out elections altogether but that can change

Facilities likely to employ 10,400 workers, compared with 40,000 in industry estimates, thinktank says Datacentres in the UK will create just a quarter of the jobs predicted by the tech sector, while consuming vast amounts of energy, according to new research. Environmental thinktank Verdant predicts that all the datacentres currently planned are likely to directly employ 10,400 workers – compared with the more than 40,000 cited in projections by the industry lobby group TechUK. Continue reading...

The records were released in response to a request from the Wisconsin State Journal.

Get out to deliberate (GOTD): Door-to-door canvassing to improve civic engagement

A battle over whether artificial intelligence will replace traditional teaching methods has resulted in hundreds of staff walking off the job.

Exclusive: Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources

Craig Mahoney argues it's time for a conversation about what higher education is worth, who benefits from it, and who should pay

The Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) is one of the leading global research institutions in the field of social sciences. It unites the social...

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

AI tools are becoming increasingly common in the hiring process – for both employers and jobseekers. Their benefits are being widely debated, but they do highlight a truth about the power of human rel...

Sector’s worsening financial situation laid bare by new analysis conducted as part of wide-ranging review of university system

He made one perfect film, then spent the rest of his career gleefully expanding on every element that made it great.

Curry was best known for playing the outlandish Frank-N-Furter in cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Growing Up Digital: Young People & Technology Workshop – The Lecture Hall, Queen Elizabeth II Centre, Coram Campus, 41 Brunswick Square, London, Wed 16 Sep 2026 - We are pleased to announce a joint wo...

Westminster spending rules have shortchanged Scottish universities by more than £5 billion, new research has found

Back in 1990–91, Scotland's universities received 14 per cent of the regular annual grant paid to Great Britain's universities.

Democracy, Participation and Public Administration - A Systems Approach; A novel democratic systems theory that puts public administration at the heart of democracy. The new approach is applied to the...

New Zealand's government introduced legislation on Monday to ban under 16s from using social media, joining a number of countries seeking to keep youngsters off sites such as Instagram and TikTok.