The Tories have crossed the Rubicon. Since the independence referendum of 2014, which Better Together won on the basis of false promises, not the least of which was the promise that the powers of t…

Continental universities gain ground as immigration restrictions and high fees deter students from the UK and the US

With funding reviews underway in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Justine Pedussel and Jim Dickinson worry none will examine the hidden accounting rules driving the crisis

Newly unsealed documents suggest that Anthropic was well aware that destroying books to train its AI would look bad.

This blog was kindly written by Professor Pierre-Alexis Mével, Professor of Media Accessibility and Audiovisual Translation at the University of Nottingham. At the time of writing, the University of N...

"A deeply human story about a very cruel and vindictive political act. Margaret Thatcher and her hatchet man Ian MacGregor set out to destroy not just the coal industry but also the tight-knit communi...

As Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s friendship deepened, Agrofert secured loans worth billions from a bank co-owned by the Hungarian state as well as by Orbán’s childhood friend.

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

Czech scholar Neil Bermel received the Josef Dobrovský Medal in Prague. We spoke to him about his path to Czech and the future of Czech studies.

The sorrow and the stupidity

The cuts that have been proposed at the University of Exeter demonstrates the crisis of purpose in Britain’s universities. Should not universities also be places to prepare for "eternal dwellings"?

Overwork, extreme stress, and a lack of physical safety is underpinned by active hostility to academic staff in general - and union activists in particular.

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James O'Brien pointed out on LBC that Farage was the majority shareholder of Reform UK when he took the £5m from Christopher Harborne - making his claim that he wasn't in frontline politics at the tim...

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

BLEA. Brexit Lived Experience Archive Documenting experiences. Personal experiences provide valuable insights into how Brexit is lived and understood by those directly affected. Recording these accoun...

For half a century, Edwin and Willa Muir's translations were how the Anglophone world read Kafka. A prize-winning study of his translators barely registers their contribution.

THIS week sees the 250th anniversary of the birth of one of Scotland’s greatest but most tragic poets, Robert Tannahill.

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...

Dear current patrons, past patrons, and future patrons of Arts and Social Sciences Library (ASSL) at Cardiff University. On Friday 17th of May, library staff of the ASSL were informed by University Li...

Researchers at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI), through its Language Sciences Institute and on behalf of the FOSTERLANG project, invite you to take part in an important survey explor...

Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Trump's 2027 budget aims to shutter the NEA, NEH and IMLS, providing only enough funding to permanently wind down operations.

Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right