The Philosopher and the Assassin shows how fiction can bridge the gap between theory and practice, helping students engage with the ethical, political and organisational challenges linked to the SDGs.

Science secretary Liz Kendall has called on UK universities and research funders to guarantee minimum paid levels of maternity pay for PhD students. Speaking at the Royal Society on 11 March, Kendall ...

We hear how a woman from rural southern Italy became the first female professor of chemical engineering in Scotland – and what she’s working on now STEM study and research are responsible for much of ...

However, the proportion of students directly including AI-generated text in assessed work has risen to 12 per cent, up from 8 per cent in 2025 and 3 per cent in 2024. Summarising textbooks, ...

Email notifications and other “nudges” targeting at-risk students have little impact on their well-being or academic engagement, according to the results of a trial held at three UK universities.

Generative artificial intelligence has reshaped how students think, work, write and even define their own sense of authorship, but do they respect it? While most students now use GenAI regularly for ...

Since then, more allegations have emerged in local media, with staff accusing the university of having opaque promotion procedures and engaging in favouritism. In an open letter published in the ...

Steady momentum and a clear narrative that links your work across research, teaching and leadership can help others see the direction and impact of your career, say Karen Lander and Joseph L. Brooks ...

He said Australia’s income-contingent student loan could no longer underwrite the higher education needs of a country with a goal for 80 per cent of its citizenry to be tertiary qualified, and where ...

Declines in international student demand in the US are expected to “accelerate” during 2026, but the UK has been warned not to be “complacent”, given many prospective students will opt to stay home ...

Many Asian economies are particularly exposed to sustained oil price shocks because of their reliance on imported energy, according to ING, a banking and financial services group. Bangladesh ordered ...

David Sweeney, a former executive chair of Research England who oversaw the last Research Excellence Framework, said universities taking ministers to task over a lack of funding had harmed ...