USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?

'Teach for the test' approach and a focus on phonics are taking the fun out of reading, say experts

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

Performing and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of "difficult decisions" about

The move by the University and College Union (UCU) is part of a long-running dispute over cuts.

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A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter