Philip LiebsonChicago, Illinois, United States Introduction In the recent semi-fictional work by Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, which takes place in the early 16th century, the protagonist Thomas Cromwell,...

In more than two decades in the Prison Service, Pia Sinha gained a reputation as a fixer. Now, as head of the Prison Reform Trust, she’s sounding the alarm about overcrowding and other problems

As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...

While Westminster remains reluctant to surrender power and Cardiff Bay remains reluctant to reform itself Wales is stuck in stalemate.

Baby boomers came of age with affordable homes, secure jobs and rising living standards but today’s young people face debt, precarious work and an uncertain future

Lee Waters What does Andy Burnham’s pledge to deliver “deeper devolution” to trigger economic growth ‘in every postcode’ mean? The Welsh Government are rightly defensive about guarding the boundaries ...

Desmond Clifford During the Senedd election this year, pollsters told us about the “progressive bloc” and the “conservative bloc” in the Senedd. The theory ran that, during the election campaign, only...

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Mark Mansfield The seismic changes to Welsh politics brought about by May’s Senedd election have been revealed in a detailed analysis of the results. More than two-thirds of the 96 politicians elected...

Sometimes it helps to look at things from the opposite point of view to your own: After a generation of devolved Government, with growing po...

Or has it... ?

Parliamentary committee welcomes fact most of 472 missing have been found but ‘extremely concerned’ for rest

Hundreds of UK nationals have been made stateless, and left trapped in squalid refugee camps, without being convicted of any crime

Back in 1990–91, Scotland's universities received 14 per cent of the regular annual grant paid to Great Britain's universities.

A Guardian correspondent’s sobering account of the US betrayal of Ukraine – and the possible reasons behind it

The Canadian prime minister will have the sell his gamble that walking away from talks with the White House will be worth the consequences.

The PM’s net zero pragmatism may please some voters, but as parts of the country go up in flames, it’s an increasingly hard sell, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Member of the UCU union back a strike over proposals to cut 200 jobs at the University of Sussex.

Nurses collapsing, builders with heatstroke, bus drivers in cabs that reach 44C. The new PM wanted to spend the summer talking about the cost of living – he should change his plans, says Guardian colu...

Martin Shipton Concerns have been expressed about a £6m online learning contract to be awarded by Cardiff University that is likely to involve further redundancies – or “professional services transfor...

Calls for speed limiters or mandated helmet use after research into injuries at three paediatric trauma centres

The incident has sparked a debate over child safety and discipline on commercial planes.

The ‘King of the North’ is on the march – or rather, on a bus. But maybe he’d be better off staying at home and thinking than heading out to press the flesh, writes Zoe Williams

Exclusive: Analysis finds cost of higher education ‘falls overwhelmingly on the individual’

Alan Milburn has outlined a generation cut adrift by austerity. We must grasp the nettle and rebuild a preventive state

Desmond Clifford All the best eisteddfods have a row. Like football, eisteddfods arouse passion precisely because, in the end, no one gets killed. Even so, the rows often point to larger matters. Amon...

Exclusive: Analysis shows 55% of accounts were overseas – and seven of 12 most-read posts came from US

Editorial: Seventy years after CP Snow warned of estrangement between the sciences and arts, breadth in education should be encouraged

Study of accidents in England and Wales shows e-scooter riders three times more likely to suffer traumatic brain injury than bikers

Letters: Margaret Owen suggests that Britain’s well endowed independent schools have a part to play in offering Afghan girls living under the Taliban the chance to get an education

An academic at a Welsh university has co-authored a new study arguing that the most significant shortcomings of artificial intelligence stem from a fundamental difference between how humans and machin...

Dr Rhys ap Gwilym examines the findings from student data to better understand why Welsh higher education is under pressure.

LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance

Desmond Clifford A saviour riding from the north, Andy Burnham reflects the populism of our age. Enough Labour MPs were sufficiently scared shitless by Farage that they were prepared to abandon their ...

Local leaders say plan will transform funding so English regions no longer rely on Whitehall handouts for projects

Richard Wyn Jones There is a contradiction at the heart of Andy Burnham’s attitude to devolution. On the face of it, the new UK Prime Minister’s commitment could hardly be clearer. Last week he told r...