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Only 16% of university heads were privately educated, in contrast to judges and elite civil servants. Why the difference. More...

While young people call for urgent action on the climate emergency, universities are lagging behind, with two-thirds likely to fail their 2020 targets for the reduction of carbon emissions. And academic conferences are partly to blame. More...

Academic publisher hopes to convince students to pay to access online materials. More...

Survey finds more than four in five parents plan to contribute to living expenses. More...

Pinned just west of Marsden, Yorkshire on a 17th-century map of the UK, is a poem by the UK’s new poet laureate, Simon Armitage. “The sky has delivered / its blank missive. / The moor in coma.” Move west, to the Isle of Man, and the poet is a little less well known – she’s dubbed herself Mrs Yorkshire the Baking Bard – but the sense of place is just as strong (and the rhymes are better, too): “I climbed Maughold Head as the morning sun rose / And the darkness surrendered to light / Where the buttery bloom of the golden gorse grows / And adventurous seabirds take flight.” More...

‘Ruthlessly systematic’ research achieves qubit communication 200 times faster than ever before. More...

A wet summer in a Welsh ice-cream parlour was the perfect way to cope with impending adulthood. More...

Universities must be upfront about institutional racism to become fairer places for black, Asian and minority ethnic staff. More...

League tables of all subject areas taught at UK universities, and profiles of those subjects. More...

The founder of the Association of Working Class Academics is fighting for class to be recognised in equality law as well as race and gender. More...