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  • A middle-aged woman at a microphone gestures with her hand.

    For-profit colleges fund lawmakers who led attack on top universities over campus protests

  • Three women wearing caps and gowns at university graduation

    Universities in England face fines if they fail to protect students from harassment

    Use of NDAs in cases of harassment and sexual misconduct will also be banned under measures introduced by regulator
  • UK university students wearing mortar boards and gowns

    Ucas personal statements weren’t read by academics

    Letter: A reader who was a university programme director responds to the news that personal statements are to be scrapped
  • Were you particularly proud of your statement – or does the mere mention of it bring embarrassment?

    Send us your old Ucas personal statements

  • Exterior of Goldsmiths, University of London

    English universities should not expect government bailout, Phillipson says

  • Students outside the main campus of Renmin University of China

    Chinese university sacks professor after social media accusation of sexual harassment

  • Sir Paul Nurse shakes hands with Rosemary Fowler

    Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery

Our networks

  • Sex workers across the UK are in desperate situations as lockdown continues.

    UK sex workers face rising violence and hardship during pandemic

    Some women have taken up sex work for the first time because of money worries, while others who had left the trade have returned
  • A woman waits in the shadows

    My working week: ‘I wonder who buys sex from the vulnerable women I try to help’

  • Richard Vize

    Clapped-out kit, long delays, too few beds and staff: NHS enters 2021 in a sorry state

    Richard Vize
  • Community food delivery in Scotland in March, during the UK national lockdown.

    The UK government has failed to handle Covid, but local councils give a ray of hope

    Jessica Studdert
  • Coronavirus outbreak, China - 05 Feb 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock (10548795e) Ai Zhiyun (R) and Hu Chunli (C) buy goods for residents of an enclosed building in Nanchang, east China’s Jiangxi Provincee according to the list and send them downstairs for residents to collect. Coronavirus outbreak, China - 05 Feb 2020 To combat the pneumonia epidemic caused by novel coronavirus, some communities and villages in Nanchang City have implemented enclosed management. In order to solve the inconvenience, some community workers take on the job of running errands and purchasing on residents’ behalf. Ai Zhiyun and Hu Chunli are in charge of purchasing daily necessities for 75 households in an enclosed building. Residents will send their shopping list to WeChat the day before, and the community staff will purchase according to the list and send them downstairs for residents to collect.

    Back to basics: how social workers returned to their roots during Covid

  • Secret Country, Re-Live, Rehearsal on Zoom, 2020

    'We don't want to be seen as victims': the older people using theatre to tell their Covid stories

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
  • Illustration showing a woman with six arms holding tools including a laptop, an iron, a dustpan and brush and a piece of paper

    Big, beautiful goals – but can’t be bothered? 11 great productivity tips for lazy people

  • Nell Frizzell

    I hate cleaning my home. Can I do yours instead?

    Nell Frizzell
  • Woman working from home office

    Hybrid working makes employees happier, healthier and more productive, study shows

  • black and white image of man in a row of work cubicles leaning back in his chair against a background of yellow with coloured spheres

    ‘I was terrified of the tea round’: the small changes that can help neurodivergent people thrive at work

  • Rupert Lowe seated at a press conference table

    Reform UK MP accused of mounting ‘witch-hunt’ against local teachers

    • An adult hands a plate of sausage and egg to a child

      Eight in 10 primary teachers in England spending own money to help pupils

    • Teacher with two pupils

      One in three teachers have no behaviour support for pupils with additional needs, poll finds

    • Kenan Malik

      What a teacher in hiding can tell us about our failure to tackle intolerance

      Kenan Malik
    • Ian Mackintosh

      Ian Mackintosh obituary

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