Why stop at Heaton-Harris’s demand for names of Brexit academics? Business leaders and judges too are ‘enemies of the people’. More...

In 2014 hundreds of modern witches converged on the city, demanding a retrospective pardon for three elderly women hanged in 1682, Temperance Lloyd, Susannah Edwards and Mary Trembles, who were followed in 1685 by Alice Molland, whose execution was believed to be the last of its kind although the law was not changed until 1735. More...

Fancy apartment blocks are springing up in university cities. How much do the lucky student tenants mingle with their peers. More...

The ‘Shakespeare for snowflakes at Cambridge University’ story was depressingly inaccurate. I simply flagged discussion of sexual abuse that could be traumatic for victims. More...

The University of Oxford is to look into claims that it tried to “excommunicate” a leading politics academic after he resigned over a key patron’s support for Donald Trump’s inauguration. More...

The number of part-time learners has halved since 2010. How can the government and universities persuade more of them to enrol on courses. More...

The entrenchment of privilege is woven into the fabric of Oxford and Cambridge. Only by stopping them admitting undergraduates can we counter this. More...

When I went to Cambridge six years ago, I overlooked institutional racism. My sister, a current student at Southampton, takes a very different view. We sat down to talk about our different experiences of prejudice at university. More...

High demand at companies such as Google could leave fewer talented scientists to teach next generation, academics fear. More...

Volunteering or campaigning alongside your degree gives you the chance to make a difference, develop new skills and bolster your CV. More...