University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years agoPlant specimens and teaching materials that inspired Charles Darwin and qualified him to work as a naturalist on HMS Beagle have been unearthed from an archive in […]

Move by state education officials picked by Republican governor removes the course as a graduation componentEducation leaders in Florida have removed sociology as a graduation component at state universities in Ron DeSantis’s latest attack on what the Republican governor sees as the “woke” […]

Grant cuts of nearly 70% may force university departments to close and ‘annihilate’ research, scientists sayBritish physicists have shaped our understanding of nature and the universe for more than a century, uncovering the building blocks of matter and furthering our knowledge on cosmic […]

My brother Peter, who has died aged 79, was emeritus professor and a former head of the American studies department at Nottingham University. His work there led to him becoming an internationally respected authority on Mark Twain.He published dozens of articles and several books on the American […]

Idris Robinson says Texas State violated his constitutional rights over off-campus talk seized on by pro-Israel activistsPhilosophy professor Idris Robinson has sued Texas State University officials, asserting that the school violated his constitutional rights by ending his contract after he gave a […]

The Home Office has blocked new study visas for applicants from Afghanistan, Sudan, Myanmar and Cameroon. It means many women will miss out on life-changing opportunities – as five female academics explainSix students challenge Home Office visa ban on four countriesShahira Sadat was thrilled. She […]

Sudanese and Afghan students with offers to study in UK say government’s ‘emergency brake’ is discriminatoryThe women banned from studying in BritainSix students from Sudan and Afghanistan have accused the home secretary of racial discrimination and launched legal action to try to overturn a […]

Readers respond to articles on the causes and effects of youth unemploymentRegarding Polly Toynbee’s article (Young people want to work: now there may be jobs for them, 17 March), as a young person, I believe that the government must rebuild trust in its support, or young people will continue to […]

Repayments also affect financial stability of nearly half of graduates, according to report by UK bankPeople with student loans who are working towards a home deposit save almost £2,000 less per year than those without the debt, according to a new report by Barclays.The bank also found that 44% of […]

Three cases previously confirmed reclassified by UK Health Security Agency after further testingThe number of confirmed meningitis cases linked to the Kent outbreak has fallen from 23 to 20.The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said on Sunday that three cases previously thought confirmed had been […]

Those planning for uni in England and Wales this autumn can apply for student loans from Monday. Here are the options for families worried about debtOur child is heading to university soon – should we try to pay their tuition fees upfront so they are not saddled with a debt for decades?Our child […]

How infections linked to a nightclub escalated into a public health incident requiring a national response is a puzzle experts are still grappling withTyra Skinner had already been violently sick three times when doctors at Kent’s William Harvey hospital realised something was badly wrong. The […]

Causes of meningitis, what the public health response has been, and how the situation differs from CovidThe deadly outbreak of meningitis in Kent has fuelled concerns about how far the disease will spread and seen the return of people wearing masks and queueing for vaccines. The scenes are […]

My friend Ted Booth, who has died aged 87, was one of the academics whose iconoclasm made Hornsey College of Art in London a hotbed of radicalism in the 1970s, when Hornsey was a byword for student protests and radical teaching.A lecturer in creative writing, he was also a well-regarded poet who […]

Rulings in cases alleging antisemitism on US campuses say common pro-Palestinian speech is constitutionally protectedFew debates from the last few years have been more contentious than whether criticism of Israel and Zionism is antisemitic, threatens Jewish people or violates their civil rights. […]

Florida restricted teaching around sex, gender and race. Lux is now giving students a forum for these issuesSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxOn a Tuesday night, at Florida’s only public liberal arts college, a small group of students gathered in a […]

Sociology faculty are refusing to alter syllabi, even as state targets how race, gender and inequality are taughtSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxAcross Florida universities, some sociology professors are quietly choosing not to alter their courses in […]

Thousands of students to be offered vaccines in response to quickest-growing outbreak experts have seenThe number of meningitis infections linked to Kent continues to grow, with five confirmed new cases on Wednesday, in what experts have described as the quickest-growing outbreak of the disease […]

Students queue for antibiotics in Canterbury and worry about who they have been in contact with, as exams are moved onlineOn Monday morning, nine days after a night out at Club Chemistry, a nightclub in Canterbury, Joe Bradshaw realised he had been linked to the meningitis outbreak in Kent that has […]

Time is running out to find agreement on areas such as tuition fees EU citizens would pay in Britain and rules for food safetyThe EU is hoping to urgently reboot talks on the “reset” of relations with the UK as negotiations are in danger of foundering before a planned July summit.At a public […]