The higher education watchdog has been urged to investigate a "political" campaign to oust Buckingham University’s Vice-Chancellor for being too "Right-wing".
As the Chancellor sets out her plan to fill the "£22bn black hole" resulting from, er, Labour's eye-popping public sector pay rises, Charlotte Gill sets out the country's worst taxpayer-funded PhDs that no one would miss.
If Rachel Reeves wants to fill the £22bn "black hole" she should abolish the Arts and Humanities Research Council, says Charlotte Gill. £110m a year on treasures such as 'Building Europe's Queer and Trans Archives'.
Using Latin names for plants may be racist, the University of Michigan has warned, in guidance to prevent the influence of colonial "power structures" on visitors.
A freedom of speech row has erupted at Durham University as one of its oldest societies, the 182 year-old Durham Union debating society, was banned from taking part in freshers' fair over "DEI non-compliance".
Looking back on his childhood in the 1980s, Dr. David McGrogan is struck with an unshakable sense of nostalgia for a world that is gone. To have hope, he says, following Kierkegaard, we must look this loss in the face.
Will Labour adopt a 10% limit on private school admissions at top universities? It would obviously be deeply unfair, but many on the Left believe such top-down quotas are needed to achieve 'justice', says Dr Nicholas Tate.
Seven British Nobel prize winner have joined the backlash from academics over plans to scrap free speech laws tackling cancel culture at universities.
In another case of 'you couldn't make it up', there's a campaign underway to 'decolonise' exams by letting students sit their own personalised ones they could never fail. What could possibly go wrong, asks Steven Tucker.
A Labour Government source has dismissed the new (and "paused") Freedom of Speech Act as a "hate speech charter". Free speech in Britain has rarely been in more peril, says David Abulafia.
