That Richard Dawkins should be “left with the overwhelming feeling that they are human” means we must share forcefully the simple fact that they are not, and how to test them... (read more)

This resource provides the first truly global scan of contemporary issues and debates around the world regarding the relationship(s) between the state, schools

We advocate the development of epistemic literacy in all learners in all religious education (RE) classrooms. In fact, we advocate it in all learners in all schools, within and beyond classrooms. We f...

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What if the real promise of AI in education isn’t automation, prediction, or efficiency, but a richer understanding of how students think, argue, and develop ideas? In a new open-access article co-authored with Mutlu Cukurova, I explore the potential of digital textual analysis to support teachers in the humanities and social sciences. The question we ask is simple: can we combine machine learning with socio-cultural theory to help educators better understand learner development—without reducing students to data points?

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Highly educated Kenyans working for essay mills ghostwrite academic work that students pass off as their own

Institutions are wary of speaking about Israel's actions in Gaza, but that silence has consequences, argues Aneeza Pervez

Dr Sian Vaughan, Associate Professor in Research Practice, Birmingham City University In this post I consider how using the concept of a hidden curriculum in the doctorate (Elliot et al 2020) might…

It’s time we stop asking what care experienced students lack, argues Beccie Davis-Yates, and start focusing on the insight they can bring It’s time we stop asking what care experienced students lack, ...

As the HE sector faces pressure to "transform", Bridgette Bewick and Sarah Hubbard argue that it is compassion that will make transformation sustainable

Men on average take home 14% more five years after leaving university, according to FT analysis

Claire Inglis challenges higher education’s overreliance on resilience, exposing how the narrative masks systemic failures and burdens neurodivergent students with unrealistic expectations Claire Ingl...

Drawing on lived experience research, Abigail Lewis explores the realities of class-based exclusion and how institutions can respond

Students increasingly use AI chatbots for anything from academic queries to emotional quandaries. But are they missing out on the chance to make their own mistakes? Three undergrads reveal all …

The AI conversation is breaking down into silos, with many staff and students switching off or pushing back. Josh Thorpe calls for everyone to take a breath – and then come together and respond The AI...

Shaimaa Abulebda has been given the chance to reclaim some of her old life - but remains stuck in Gaza because of government red tape.

Forty people who have been offered scholarships unable to travel without biometric data they have no way of getting

Around 80 students from Gaza have defied unimaginable challenges - managing, in the midst of a war, to get accepted by UK universities.

Anna Bull examines how evidence of trans and non-binary people's heightened vulnerability to sexual violence is absent from new EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces Anna Bull examines how evidence of tr...

Prof James Hirschfeld says of his 60 years at the University of Sussex:

This casework note discusses some of the issues and learning points we see arising from complaints relating to AI and academic misconduct.

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Universities face an impossible choice between OfS free speech guidance requiring them to host controversial performers and their legal duty to protect students from discrimination and harassment.

‘Knowledge-rich’ curriculums will still be crucial in a world shaped by the technology

Professors flee elite US institutions in the face of what many characterise as a direct assault on education and science

Here’s a question. Is it true that young people/Gen Z/students are more sexist than they used to be?

There is a sense of crisis across US universities, brought on by an onslaught of hostile actions from the Trump administration. Alistair Jarvis reflects on a trip to America There is a sense of crisis...

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Education, including school education, is widely understood as fundamental to a just response to global climate and ecological crises. We examined the practices of teachers based in England focused o...

School-based climate change and sustainability education are widely understood as a vital response to the triple environmental crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. This curren...

The University of Lincoln is calling for visa rules for international students to be changed.

To read today’s coverage of Ipsos UK polling for The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, you'd think the Scottish public were painting placards demanding the reintroduction of fees.

John Swinney has insisted it is “important” to keep university education free for Scottish students – despite a poll suggesting almost half of…

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AI capabilities are moving so fast, and the implications are so profound, that we restrict the ability of students to learn through curiosity, experimentation, and hands-on experience at our peril.

Nursing education must see investment from ministers, as an RCN report reveals the positive impact funding could have on staff numbers and patient care

Rapper is honoured for his philanthropic work alongside the likes of John Rutter, Angela Davis and Simon Russell Beale

Teachers’ main justification for running a food bank was the moral imperative to support families who needed it.

Five years on, Tim Harford looks at the data on the effect of lockdown.

Analysis of post-Covid performance overturns recent claims that boys are falling behind girls at school

More than 40% of UK universities are facing a financial crisis. There are policies that could help out universities at no-cost to the Government, but an alternative funding model is ultimately needed.