Students at Edinburgh, Dundee and Nottingham face a term without any teaching as sector struggles with rising financial uncertainty

Asian universities’ resumed upward trajectory takes them past mainland Europe for the first time, as reputational lustre protects US and UK for now

The university has continued to argue staff cuts are needed to make ends meet. But a growing cash balance has raised questions about the need for more redundancies, and whether it qualifies for millio...

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Edinburgh today (Monday) start five-weeks of strikes in a dispute over £140million cuts and compulsory redundancies. The strike f...

Aberdeen is launching an ambitious bid to revive its struggling centre. Could it offer lessons for other high streets?

As the University of Edinburgh moves to close a number of degree programmes, including the standalone degree in Scottish Ethnology, Kevin MacNeil reflects on the subject that changed the course of …

Provide hardship funds to precariously employed staff at Goldsmiths whose employment has been cut or changed as a result of Covid-19 or restructures and who may be further impacted by strike deduction...

We are seeking to appoint a talented researcher to the role of Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to work on The Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life (LCAL). LCAL is a major new interdisciplinar...

DUCU is raising funds for a Judicial Review of the governance decisions that led the University Court to approve compulsory redundancies.

Forty-eight programmes in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) are among the casualties.

Case highlights severe financial strain on sector across UK as string of university housing schemes fail

The University and College Union says the mothballing of courses will ‘drive a wrecking ball’ through higher education in the city

According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Literatures,…

Register of British Slave Traders reveals how deeply the trafficking of Africans was embedded in the country’s politics, economy, institutions and culture

Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans

Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...

Graduate students, the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) invites you to submit your scholarly work to be considered for the Eric R. Wolf Prize.

“I am an observer of how intellectual ideas travel and enter into everyday life, or how they come to be performed by families in ways that give those ideas a reality of their own.”

In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...

You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a

Thomson Reid Cowell, assistant British resident commissioner in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), wrote a musical comedy – ‘with humblest apologies to Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan’ – depic...