Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

With the latest round of redundancies approved on Friday the university has admitted costs will have to be reduced further.

These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...

Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws The co-founder of Palestine Action has won a legal challenge to the home secretary’s decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws. The proscription of Palestine Action, which categorised it alongside the likes of Islamic State, was the first of a direct action protest group and attracted widespread condemnation as well as a civil disobedience campaign defying the ban, during which more than 2,000 people have been arrested. Continue reading...

Northumbria University will be hit with ten days of strike action from Thursday 12 February in a fight to save staff pensions, the University and College Union (UCU) announced today

This form allows UCU higher education members to request a replacement ballot for the 2025 HE industrial action ballots, or to self-report that they have already voted.

Staff at the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University are taking part in strikes.

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

International Organization for Migration says refugees are heading to Tawila, which is already sheltering 652,000 displaced people More than 36,000 Sudanese have fled the Kordofan region east of Darfur since Saturday, the UN’s migration agency has said, a week after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control of the city of El Fasher. The strategic central area between Sudan’s Darfur provinces and the Khartoum-Riverine region that includes the capital to the east, has in recent weeks become the latest battleground in the two-year civil war between the Sudanese armed forces (SAF) and the paramilitary group. Continue reading...