Afternoon all, As thunder rumbles over Westminster, the battle for ideas over how to govern Britain has begun. Yuan Yang MP joined us yesterday, with Sir John Curtice and Tom McTague, to discuss a government reset –…

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SRHE Blog·higher-ed

Complaining to the OIA

by GR Evans The Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA) has stressed in its Annual Report that the system it operates is under strain. The expectation that universities would offer a route for students to make…

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HEPI Blog·higher-ed

While we debate the theory, young people are making decisions without us

This blog was kindly authored by Julia Roberts, Founder and Principal Consultant at Julia Roberts Advisory. On 6 th May 2026, HEPI published a thoughtful piece by Professor Dame Athene Donald of Cambridge asking whether…

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DfE Teaching Blog·higher-ed

Leading with heart: Rozina’s career pathway from courtrooms to classrooms

Rozina Butt Our education system is strongest when every teacher, leader and student can see themselves represented — and can thrive. This series shares the lived experiences of teachers and leaders from…

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University of Cambridge News·higher-ed

Celebrating Cambridge as the birthplace of modern football

Cambridge University, United Football Club and City Council have come together at the University’s Grange Road sports ground to celebrate Cambridge as the birthplace of modern football and to look ahead to a future of…

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The Guardian Education

‘It’s about recognising our role in history’: Bradford exhibition to revisit live Somali display

At the city’s Great Exhibition of 1904, 57 Somali men, women and children cooked, weaved and danced for visitors It was, the posters said, a rare chance to see a “little known but interesting people”: a live display of…

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SRHE Blog·higher-ed

A new social contract and a revival in public funding for higher education

by Vincent Carpentier Longstanding tensions between funding and massification of higher education have significantly intensified, bringing a sense of vulnerability to the system, its institutions, staff, and students. I…

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University of Cambridge News·higher-ed

Doctors favour explaining anxiety to patients as a human evolution ‘success story’

Mental health clinicians are over five times more likely to see evolutionary explanations of anxiety as helpful for their patients, rather than the genetic approaches currently taught to trainee doctors and…

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SRHE Blog·higher-ed

International students as a national project: how states brand their higher education

by Evelyn Kim, Annette Bamberger and Sazana Jayadeva From student choice to state strategy International student mobility is often framed as a story of individual aspiration. Students, it is widely assumed, choose…

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University of Cambridge News·higher-ed

Almost a minute to midnight: Cambridge helps launch open course on nuclear weapons as global tensions rise

An open-source online textbook and course on the current state of nuclear weapons, along with possible futures and global annihilation potential, has been launched by the University’s Centre for the Study of Existential…

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Teaching Times·research

Developing A Love Of History Through Historical Fiction

Tim Jenner, HMI National Lead for History, has stated that reading and stories should be at the centre of school history. Compelling, award-winning historical fiction can not only inspire a love of reading, but it can…

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University of Cambridge News·higher-ed

Unseen Peter Shaffer play revealed at Trinity

Trinity College is celebrating the centenary of the birth of twin brothers Peter Shaffer (1926-2016) and Anthony Shaffer (1926-2001) who both studied at Trinity and went on to become award-winning playwrights. Peter…

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LSE Business Review·policy

“Becoming Nature Positive” is a documentary about the great choice of our time

Ahead of a screening at LSE Marco Lambertini , executive director of the film and Convener of the Nature Positive Initiative, explains the critical choice humanity must make. Everyone has a role to play in becoming…

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IOE London Blog·policy

Are there lessons to be learned from the history of workers’ technical education in mid to late nineteenth-century Britain?

30 April 2026 By Julia Jeanes The question of how Britain’s education system should prepare people for employment has been hotly contested since the 19th century. Compared with academic routes, successive policy and…

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LSE Higher Education Blog·higher-ed

Teaching to a different beat

Mashing up music, style, poetry, make up, material culture, and philosophy, historian Lucy Robinson uses punk and rave to disrupt the predominant dynamic in the classroom and refashion it as an alternative intellectual…

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EU Commission Press Releases (EAC)

Statement by the Commission and the High Representative ahead of the 40 years since the Chornobyl disaster

European Commission Statement Brussels, 25 Apr 2026 Forty years ago, the disaster at the Chornobyl Power Plant marked one of the gravest nuclear disasters in human history. Its true toll, long obscured by Soviet…

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The PIE News·higher-ed

Catherine Dalipe, Designing Your Life Consulting

Introduce yourself in three words or phrases Cross-cultural connector, resilient in transition, designing what’s next What makes you get up in the morning? The sound of the ocean helps. Living near the coast means I…

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SRHE Blog·higher-ed

From TPS to USS – is now the time to move pension scheme?

by John Ingoe Amid increasing financial pressures, a number of universities are considering a move from the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) for their teaching staff. In…

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The PIE News·policy

Malvern St James under threat of closure as financial pressures mount

Malvern St James (MSJ), located in Worcestershire, revealed today that its management board is proposing a “planned and orderly closure” by the end of the academic year. It said the decision had been prompted by “a…

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University of Cambridge News·higher-ed

Malaria shaped the distribution of early humans across Africa

The presence of malaria affected where human populations lived across sub-Saharan Africa between 74,000 and around 5,000 years ago, a new study has found. Over tens of thousands of years, the presence of this disease…

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Thunder over Westminster

Complaining to the OIA

While we debate the theory, young people are making decisions without us

Leading with heart: Rozina’s career pathway from courtrooms to classrooms

Celebrating Cambridge as the birthplace of modern football

‘It’s about recognising our role in history’: Bradford exhibition to revisit live Somali display

A new social contract and a revival in public funding for higher education

Doctors favour explaining anxiety to patients as a human evolution ‘success story’

International students as a national project: how states brand their higher education

Almost a minute to midnight: Cambridge helps launch open course on nuclear weapons as global tensions rise

Developing A Love Of History Through Historical Fiction

Unseen Peter Shaffer play revealed at Trinity

“Becoming Nature Positive” is a documentary about the great choice of our time

Are there lessons to be learned from the history of workers’ technical education in mid to late nineteenth-century Britain?

Teaching to a different beat

Statement by the Commission and the High Representative ahead of the 40 years since the Chornobyl disaster

Catherine Dalipe, Designing Your Life Consulting

From TPS to USS – is now the time to move pension scheme?

Malvern St James under threat of closure as financial pressures mount

Malaria shaped the distribution of early humans across Africa

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