UK Higher Education News

• California professor says charges over pro-Palestinian protest show ‘failure in leadership’ November 20, 2024
  Video of arrest of Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, tenured professor at University of California, Irvine, went viralAs riot police arrested 50 people during a May 2024 pro-Palestinian demonstration at the University of California, Irvine, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard was escorted away by riot police, her hands zip-tied behind her back.A video of the tenured professor speaking passionately to reporters […]
  Michael Sainato
• What are Donald Trump’s plans to overhaul US colleges and universities? November 18, 2024
  Republican president-elect says he wants to dismantle the US education department and fire ‘radical left accreditors’US non-voters: tell us why you abstained in the 2024 US presidential electionDonald Trump hates the state of higher education in the US so much that he wants to start a new online university that will dole out bachelor’s degrees […]
  Rachel Leingang
• Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff November 16, 2024
  Leading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy termsOxford University has been accused of relying on academics on “Deliveroo-style” and precarious fixed-term contracts to give the majority of its tutorials, after new research revealed just a third of lessons are taught by full-time professors.Data obtained through freedom of information requests by the […]
  Anna Fazackerley
• Three in four England universities expected to be in the red next year November 15, 2024
  Higher education regulator says sector needs to take ‘take bold action’ and consider mergers or cost sharingEngland’s universities face financial turmoil with nearly three in four expected to be in the red next year, according to gloomy forecasts from the higher education regulator.The Office for Students (OfS) said the sector would have to take “bold […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds November 13, 2024
  Sutton Trust calls for improved access to creative education and industry dominated by upper middle-classYoung people from working-class backgrounds are being “blocked” from entering the creative industries, which remain “elitist” and inaccessible, according to research.A report from the Sutton Trust found stark overrepresentation in the arts for those from the most affluent backgrounds, which it […]
  Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent