The University and College Union (UCU) has this week welcomed pay rises and better working conditions at Bournemouth and Poole College following formal acceptance of a new workload agreement by branch...

Earlier this afternoon, my oldest boyhood friend, a distinguished international lawyer who received his doctorate at Cambridge, called me to share the tragic news that Jason Arday, the Black British a...

Leadership hopeful to also say tax revenues from new North Sea oil and gasfields should be used to cut energy bills

In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election

The old settlement will not politely bow out for its replacement – which is why progressives must take action on these three fronts, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

The partisan debate since the Gorton and Denton byelection risks blinding us to the truth. People are rejecting wholesale the way our politics has developed, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

Responding to a report that Reform mayor of Lincolnshire Andrea Jenkyns is pushing ahead with plans to scrap all funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) from 2027, UCU attacked the ...

Take action! What’s the problem? The UK’s digital backbone. The cloud services, data systems, and platforms that underpin government, public services, and democratic processes is dangerously reliant o...

Prof Shitij Kapur says there are too many graduates and degree is now just a ‘visa’ to enter professional world

At Westminster, gifts and freebies aren’t simple goodwill, but rather part of the slow pull of money that turns heads, normalises privilege and corrodes public service

Staff at Runshaw College in Leyland have overwhelmingly voted to accept a pay offer of 7% and pull out of the England wide college strike action.

Pay deals were agreed at a further 17 colleges during the ballot window

Many terminally-ill people would feel “duress” and “pressure” to choose an assisted suicide if it is legalised, because of the lack of funding for the NHS, palliative care and social care services,…

Progressive Zohran Mamdani had a simple, defiant message for President Donald Trump after he won the New York City mayoral election.

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De Montfort University Leicester now faces new challenges: legal and financial threats from its former partner, Study World in Dubai

There is, I think, a necessary twofold response when something as significant as last night's US attack on Iranian nuclear facilities takes place. The first, as I have already noted, is to note that ...