An academic friend on Facebook posted a link to a news story this morning and commented, “I’m feeling extremely low, as if everything noble and good I’ve devoted my life to is meaningle…

Protesters gathered in Gosport after initial reports the small boat would be brought further west.

Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover

The other day I was talking to an international student leader enrolled on a Business Analytics degree.

The different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces around hierarchies and structural power – and who gets to belong

Changes to grant system suggested by Chris McDonald could ‘mistakenly’ further concentrate funding in the golden triangle, academics warn

Universities are ‘underestimating’ the challenges caused by outsourcing services amid major professional services staff redundancies, report warns

Applications are sought for three Research Associates to join the Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies (CLAWS), directed by Professor Josephine Quinn. Starting no later than 1 October 2027, you wil...

Why, in a city that has everything from tacos to tteokbokki, is it hard to find couscous? Arthur Asseraf investigates. Illustration by Sing Yun Lee.

The Embassy is a largely forgotten suburban cinema that once served north Edinburgh. Its life was short and rather unremarkable, apart from that one time when the world's greatest violinist put on a cheap concert for the locals

Everyone knows the importance of relics for early medieval Christianity. But a relic is only valuable if it's identifiable, otherwise it's just a fragment of bone, cloth or stone. In other words, ever...

As nominations close in the Scottish Labour leadership election, Labour Hame editor Duncan Hothersall finds a party that has so lost its sense of moral purpose that it only feels able to offer its …

The academic my sister knew was ‘kind, wise, warm and fun’, if also deeply flawed. The system that overpromoted him should have been the target, not him

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

with Jeroen Wijnendaele

The Department of Ancient Civilizations at the University of Basel invites applications for a fully funded PhD position, tenable from October 2026 (negotiable), within the SNSF-funded project “The Rom...