Study abroad is frequently framed as life-changing. The narratives are familiar: expanded horizons, newfound confidence, personal growth. But for many students, particularly those historically underrepresented in…

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Cambridge Judge Business School Insight·higher-ed

How aid‑worker trauma insights can strengthen workplaces

Many professionals face persistently traumatic situations, and they can include financial traders facing continued losses or managers forced into waves of redundancies affecting hundreds or even thousands of employees.…

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University of Cambridge News·higher-ed

Social media ban for under-16s in the UK: Cambridge expert reaction

Social media ban for under-16s in the UK: Cambridge expert reaction Fred Lewsey Mon, 06/15/2026 - 12:33 The UK government has announced that social media platforms will be blocked from offering services to British…

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Cambridge Judge Business School Insight·higher-ed

What makes products cool? Utility beats style

The English word ‘cool’ is known and used around the world, sometimes mixed in with local languages as in the vernacular of French teenagers in describing a fashion look as ‘cool et clean’. Marketers seek for their…

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Resolution Foundation·higher-ed

Bread, circuses, and your pension pot

Afternoon all, Even after two thousand years, “ bread and circuses ” has not gone out of fashion as a political strategy . Having discovered that fixing the price of bread is not so easy, the Chancellor has taken 50p…

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HEPI Blog·higher-ed

WEEKEND READING: Subject choice shapes gender balance across UK universities

This blog was kindly authored by Dr Fadime Sahin Senior Lecturer at University of Portsmouth, London. Some universities enrol far more women than men; others show the reverse. These differences are striking, but they…

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LSE Business Review·policy

How empty high streets contribute to support for populist parties in England

How does decline in local neighbourhoods impact political discourse and competition? As the populist Reform UK make significant gains in local elections in England, Thiemo Fetzer , Prashant Garg and Jacob Edenhofer…

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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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University of Cambridge News·higher-ed

Cambridge academics elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

They are among 252 leaders in academia, the arts, industry, journalism, philanthropy, policy, research, and science elected in 2026. The Cambridge academics elected are: Professor Julie Ahringer (Department of Genetics;…

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Special Needs Jungle·policy

Educational Psychologists should be at the heart of SEND reform: supporting children, families and schools to thrive

New article from Special Needs Jungle: By Dr Andrea Honess, Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Educational and Child Psychology The government’s Schools White Paper and SEND consultation set out…

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SRHE Blog·edtech

Judgement under pressure: generative AI and the emotional labour of learning

by Joanne Irving-Walton What AI absorbs and why that matters Most debates about generative AI in higher education fixate on what it produces: essays, summaries, answers, paraphrases. I find myself increasingly…

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SRHE Blog·research

Can folk pedagogies help us understand the limited impact of research on higher education?

by Alex Buckley The SRHE conference is a great place to see our field in all its glory. From the sessions I attended in December 2025, one thing that was abundantly clear was the desire of so many HE researchers to…

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Cambridge Judge Business School Insight·higher-ed

How leaders turn negative emotions into positive outcomes

Scholars and the general public alike generally assume that negative emotions produce negative outcomes. That can certainly occur, such as when anger, anxiety or fear result in impetuous and harmful reactions that make…

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LSE Higher Education Blog·higher-ed

HE wrapped for 2025

From AI to play, academics from around the world choose the higher education stories that stood out for them in 2025 The creative scar left by GenAI The most thought-provoking story for me in 2025 is the evidence of a…

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LSE Higher Education Blog·higher-ed

We overlook music departments at our peril

As more university music departments face the axe, Thomas Graves points out what we’re all missing when we fail to recognise the unique value of music education With UK higher education (HE) in financial crisis ,…

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KCL Blogs·higher-ed

‘Expect the Unexpected’ – National Student Money Week Testimonial

Photo by J. Kelly Brito on Unsplash Entering university shifted my whole life, it was a complete change, my environment and everything I knew simply disappeared, and I was completely alone for the first time. I remember…

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ResearchEd·curriculum

Christine Counsell: The support our middle leaders need if curricula are to flourish

The session will argue that whether they are providing support or challenge, senior leaders need to listen carefully to subject discourse. Leading a subject team in curriculum design, implementation and review is a…

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Education news for this role

Who gets to feel transformed by study abroad?

How aid‑worker trauma insights can strengthen workplaces

Social media ban for under-16s in the UK: Cambridge expert reaction

What makes products cool? Utility beats style

Bread, circuses, and your pension pot

WEEKEND READING: Subject choice shapes gender balance across UK universities

How empty high streets contribute to support for populist parties in England

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

Cambridge academics elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Educational Psychologists should be at the heart of SEND reform: supporting children, families and schools to thrive

Judgement under pressure: generative AI and the emotional labour of learning

Can folk pedagogies help us understand the limited impact of research on higher education?

How leaders turn negative emotions into positive outcomes

HE wrapped for 2025

We overlook music departments at our peril

‘Expect the Unexpected’ – National Student Money Week Testimonial

Christine Counsell: The support our middle leaders need if curricula are to flourish

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