As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

Being at the ‘top of your game’ no guarantee of job security, warns decorated historian now facing the chop

Four weeks ago, the university that I have been working at for 9 years announced massive, unjustified, reckless job cuts, predominantly targeting the humanities, arts and social sciences.

After Exeter’s announcement that it will cut 150 academic jobs, is there any hope for higher education?

150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences

An open meeting for historians in UK higher education on what is needed to best support and protect the profession and discipline.

At last week’s HE debate, a host of Oxford-associated grandees made the usual points while the sector continued to melt down, says Andrew McRae

Rowan Williams and Mark Kermode join campaign against proposed cuts for arts and social sciences

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

Russell Group institution cites changing student demand as it puts 500 staff at risk of redundancy, with 150 jobs set to go

The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".

Even for those familiar with bleak times, this has been a particularly bad few weeks in UK higher education. Confirmed job losses at the University of Essex were followed by further bad news from Hert...

AI glasses and other smart apparel may be impossible to keep out of exams, adding to universities’ woes about the future of assessments

The Radical Histories series encourages innovative and field-defining research in the history of individuals, groups, movements and ideas which challenged the political, social and cultural status quo...

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

"For if AI threatens to strip historical research and writing back to its most basic form, perhaps that’s a challenge we should meet head on."

This article explores understandings and attitudes surrounding the nature of commercial sex and the moral limits of the market in eighteenth-century England. It examines this contested commodificat...

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Abstract. In the period 1650–1715, a growing consensus emerged that educational culture in England did not meet the needs of the population, and that chang