Free speech within the law should be fundamental to life in universities: challenging opinions should themselves be challengeable (Students attack no-platform threat, 27 December). As an undergraduate at University College London in the late 1950s, I demonstrated along with hundreds of others in Trafalgar Square against the South African government’s policy of apartheid, an event captured in a front-page photograph in the Daily Worker on 16 March 1959. More...

27 December 1907 The scheme, a post-graduate study of two years at Oxford, Cambridge, or London Universities hopes for the same success that the Cecil Rhodes scheme for men enjoys.
An international and inter-colonial scholarship scheme for women, on lines similar to that which the late Cecil Rhodes in his will laid down for the benefit of young men, was drawn up some time ago by an American woman; and already (according to the “Gentlewoman”) it has every prospect of permanent success. More...