The Latest Breaking News from Academics

Academics Dr Deirdre O’Neill and Michael Wayne are suing the University and College Union (UCU) over criticism of their film about trans issues.

Academics Dr Deirdre O’Neill and Michael Wayne are suing the University and College Union

US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary

A group of experts has warned that blanket phone bans fail to prepare children for modern life in a digital world.

Despite the diversity of pro-Palestine demonstrators, officials go after people of color with visas and scholarships ‘to create a wedge in solidarity’

Lawsuit comes after multiple U.S. permanent residents and visa-holding academics have faced deportation in recent weeks

Cambridge is in a dispute with academics after an exhibition linked Stephan Hawking with the slave trade

In Germany, tariff-hit car factories are being repurposed for defence. In Britain, American academics are queueing up for jobs. The west will be different as a result of Trump – but will it be worse?

According to an investigation by Hundred Families, a charity that supports and advocates for families affected by mental health homicides, each year an average of 65 mentally ill people carry out killings. Between 2018-2023, 390 mental health patients in England committed, or were suspected of, murder or manslaughter.