The University of Cambridge has been criticised for hosting a self-proclaimed anti-feminist group that staff claim have harassed female academics and make people feel unsafe on campus. More...
Bristol told student to leave before he fell to his death, inquest told
A university student fell to his death from a bridge after being dismissed from his course and told he would have to leave his accommodation, an inquest has heard. More...
Higher education is for life, not just for employment prospects
Guardian readers respond to an ONS report that found a third of graduates are overqualified for their job. More...
Universities told to be more flexible about pupils’ A-level results
England’s higher education regulator has called on universities to look beyond exam results when admitting students and radically “rethink how they are judging merit”, as part of a push to increase their intake from disadvantaged backgrounds. More...
Cambridge college sacks researcher over links with far right
A Cambridge University college has dismissed a researcher after uncovering evidence of his collaboration with far-right extremists, with the head of the college apologising “unreservedly” to students for the appointment. More...
Judging by the Home Office, it’s now Tory policy to ruin Britain
This broken institution ricochets from one scandal to the next, dispensing cruelty and sabotaging the British economy. More...
Is Tigger the gilet jaune of the Hundred Acre Wood?
Here in Wales, it isn’t only subtitles that risk being mistranslated (G2, 26 April; Letters, 29 April). As it is a legal requirement that all road signs be bilingual, the capacity for disaster is increased. More...
Cambridge is right: you can’t take pride in the past and ignore the horror of slavery
So it’s perhaps not surprising that the University of Cambridge’s decision to launch an inquiry into its links to the slave trade has prompted some soul searching. More...
‘Academic vandalism’ – unique archive of the Troubles under threat
The Conflict Archive on the Internet (Cain) website, based in Derry, has taken two decades to build up an unrivalled encyclopaedic digital record of the conflict. It includes oral histories, election results, political memorabilia, public records, bibliographies and the names and details of more than 3,600 Troubles-related killings in Northern Ireland, Ireland, the UK and continental Europe. More...
Cambridge university to study how it profited from colonial slavery
Two full-time post-doctoral researchers based in the university’s Centre of African Studies will conduct the inquiry to uncover the university’s historical links with the slave trade. More...