4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (534+ words) An inspirational West Leeds Dispatch contributor has been awarded a Journalism Diversity Fund bursary to support his postgraduate journalism training. Harry Ward, who is registered as blind, has been awarded a National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) Journalism…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (518+ words) A University of Central Florida medical student is fighting his suspension in the courts after he admitted to being “lazy” on a research project at Nemours Children’s Hospital. The school warned that his mistakes could’ve had big consequences. Hritik Nerusu…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (315+ words) This blog is kindly authored by Dr Fatema S. Alhalwachi, Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London. Twitter/X: @dr_falhalwachi That’s a substantive claim, not a stylistic one. The Equality Act 2010 protects equality of opportunity, not equal outcomes. If ‘equity’ means allocating resources…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (257+ words) At the Toyin Falola Interview on Jason Arday and Race in the Academy, international scholars called on universities to dismantle the institutional structures that reproduce racial inequality, moving beyond tokenistic diversity rhetoric. Panellists from Britain, the United States and South…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (370+ words) Whatever else it may be, the Jason Arday affair is an illustration – and an acceleration – of the cultural right’s attacks on universities for supposedly being eroded by a fashion for inclusivity that overrides academic merit. At the same time, however,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (840+ words) My name is Jhon Sánchez, and I always read your columns. I find them interesting and measured. You often bring a perspective to an issue that I hadn’t considered. You’re probably my favorite opinion writer in English. However, regarding your…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (369+ words) An academic has criticised his university for ordering him to reconsider his public comments against assisted suicide. Dr Kevin Yuill, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Sunderland, was told to “reflect carefully” on his duty not to “adversely…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (699+ words) A copy of the Jason Arday book "Great and Unfortunate Things" is displayed for sale in a bookshop window on August 27, 2026 in London, England. How far should academic freedom protect racist research? The question divides academics in Europe, Britain and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (185+ words) Phillipe Copeland, PhD, a clinical associate professor at Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW), was recently quoted in a Chronicle of Higher Education article examining the fallout from the death of Cambridge sociologist Jason Arday and the disciplinary investigation…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (268+ words) The Prestige Of the Professors | The Wall Street Journal - newspaper Magzter Colin Kidd, the author of ‘Twilight of the Dons,’ was a fellow at All Souls for 21 years He’s now a professor of modern history at the…...