UK Higher Education News

• Unpaid internships ‘locking out’ young working-class people from careers January 23, 2025
  UK charity calls for positions of four weeks or longer to be banned to help close social mobility gapYoung people from working-class or disadvantaged backgrounds are being “locked out” of careers by unpaid or low-paid internships that benefit middle-class graduates, according to a social mobility charity.Research by the Sutton Trust found that middle-class graduates made […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• Harvard agrees to controversial definition of antisemitism in legal settlement January 21, 2025
  University agrees to observe definition that critics say is designed to protect Israel by punishing legitimate criticismHarvard University has agreed to embrace a controversial definition of antisemitism as part of two settlements reached in a US court over complaints brought by Jewish students in a development likely to be watched closely by Donald Trump’s new […]
  Robert Tait
• Irma Grant obituary January 21, 2025
  My mother Irma Grant, who has died aged 94, was a milliner and tailor, teacher and administrator, homemaker and gardener. Throughout her long life she applied her ingenuity, creativity and talents to a wide range of activities.In 1939, Irma was evacuated from London to Bedford as part of Operation Pied Piper. She lived with Dora […]
  Marcus Grant
• Bad Education by Matt Goodwin review – a lapsed liberal’s war on ‘woke’ lecture January 20, 2025
  The former politics professor is right to defend free speech in our higher education system, but his argument is undermined by his hysterical tone and lack of nuanceMatt Goodwin is a former professor of politics at the University of Kent who took voluntary severance last year, following a series of controversial posts after the Southport […]
  Andrew Anthony
• Brain implant that could boost mood by using ultrasound to go under NHS trial January 20, 2025
  Devices may have potential to help patients with conditions such as depression, addiction, OCD and epilepsyA groundbreaking NHS trial will attempt to boost patients’ mood using a brain-computer-interface that directly alters brain activity using ultrasound.The device, which is designed to be implanted beneath the skull but outside the brain, maps activity and delivers targeted pulses […]
  Hannah Devlin Science correspondent