Literary criticism is a supremely occasional skill, where you have to be bold enough to operate where there aren’t any...

In move that could generate millions, Exeter academics to deliver MA at National Defense University in Riyadh

In interview, billionaire says instead of running ‘Doge’ he should’ve ‘worked on my companies’ and shares extreme predictions

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

Exclusive: Prof Evelyn Welch, vice-chancellor of Bristol University, believes her daughter’s success shows value of arts education

The cuts that have been proposed at the University of Exeter demonstrate the crisis of purpose in Britain’s universities. Should not universities also be places to prepare for "eternal dwellings"?

Rowan Williams and Mark Kermode join campaign against proposed cuts for arts and social sciences

Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

A week-long gathering designed to inspire bold action on the climate emergency has begun at the University of Exeter.  Following on from London Climate Action Week, and in a month where record-breakin...

Leading department being in the firing line shows how changing student preferences are fundamentally reshaping universities

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

As more PhD holders compete for limited university jobs, many are reconsidering the appeal of industry careers

In celebration of our successful annual Hickory Hollow Skunk Cabbage walk on January 1, 2025, NNVNPS is reposting this Plant of the Month from December 2020. Skunk Cabbage Flower with spadix, Jan 1...

In February 1955, William Golding wrote to Charles Monteith, his editor at Faber & Faber, the firm that had published his first novel, Lord of the Flies, a few months earlier: “The other night I sat u...