2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliogra...

DPhil, PhD by Publication, Professional Doctorate, are all doctorates. What makes them different?

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Archaeologists say the discovery suggests possible trading links between Viking and Anglo-Saxons.

Unprecedentedly long strikes at Nottingham, Edinburgh and Dundee could be the shape of things to come, observers say

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...

Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan

Whistler has not had a major retrospective in Europe in the last thirty years. The Tate show should have been an...

The Parker Library will open for Open Cambridge 2026! Come and get to know us and our work on the special collections in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge on Thursday 17 September, 10:00-12:00 (last

Affluent city-state hopes plan will improve critical thinking and imagination ‘in a world of extraordinary abundance of stimulation’ Singapore is paying its citizens to pick up a book for at least 15 minutes a day in an effort to fight the rise of doomscrolling. The affluent city-state hopes its gamification strategy, which launched this month, will improve concentration, critical thinking and the imagination of Singaporeans. Continue reading...

PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour

In 2022, Livingston Parish librarian Amanda Jones spoke out against book banning attempts in her parish’s library system, saying, “Censoring and relocating books and displays is harmful to our communi...

Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum

A new report paints a 'bleak' picture of falling income from Scottish students and an over-reliance on international tuition fees.

A prolific performer across stage, screen and TV, the actor starred in Legend, Clue and It, but will always be associated with the flamboyantly camp rock’n’roll musical in which he made his breakthrough Tim Curry, the versatile performer of screen and stage, who made his name as the flamboyant Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, has died aged 80. Reports said Curry died at his home in Los Angeles. Ironically, Curry’s best-known roles all required a considerable physical transformation, to the extent that he was unrecognisable in all of them. Frank-N-Furter, Rocky Horror’s deranged scientist, saw him daubed in garish makeup and wearing stockings and suspenders, for the stage show (which debuted in 1973) and the film adaptation (released in 1975). In the Ridley Scott-directed fantasy Legend (1985), he was equipped with giant horns and scarlet skin as the Lord of Darkness. And in 1990, Curry was transformed with full-face clown pancake to play Pennywise in the TV miniseries It, based on the Stephen King novel. Continue reading...

Hundreds of staff will learn their fate on Tuesday as Principal Nigel Seaton delivers update.

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