Impacted staff were all copied into a group email, prompting outrage

Mergers, course closures and job losses are also expected in the higher education sector and could accelerate in a few years

Amid all the debates about student employability and academic integrity, the question of how AI mandates square with universities’ commitments to addressing climate change has been largely neglected. ...

Analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit adds to concerns that national newspapers are failing to link this summer's extreme weather to climate change and the net-zero policies necessary to mitigate its drastic effects.

Extreme heat is harming wellbeing of ordinary people the PM champions, yet little has been said on the topic

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

Higher education figures call on Labour to reverse tax on fees and warn institutions at risk of ‘going under’

This blog was kindly authored by Fiona Devine (Manchester) and Jo Fox (Newcastle), on behalf of the N8 subgroup on Modern Languages. We are very familiar with the story that languages are in decline a...

Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified

An area the size of 140 football pitches has reportedly been destroyed

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Exhibition of shawls invites visitors to rediscover estate's India links

The allergy is caused by ticks, but researchers have much to learn about it.

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...

Recently discovered material from the Oxford novelist will be included in the Think Human festival.

The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 mont...

The small grant round is now open from 2nd February 2026 to 13th April 2026

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

A union claims up to 300 students will see offers withdrawn as a result of the decision.

Mark Hopkins managed to get some pictures of the bird from his back garden.

Ahead of this week's Digifest, Michael Webb and Rebecca Flook confront the complex values systems behind general purpose AI technology