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• MI5 China alert will send chill through UK’s cash-strapped universities September 30, 2026
  Institutions have for years turned to China for funding opportunities but national security concerns are mountingMI5 issues spy alert to UK universities over Chinese front company stealing researchThe security alert issued by MI5 regarding a Chinese state-owned conglomerate accused of conducting espionage in the UK reveals the extent to which British intelligence remains concerned about […]
  Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent
• MI5 issues spy alert to UK universities over Chinese front company stealing research September 30, 2026
  Security service says academics should stop taking grants from and working with firm backed by China’s intelligence serviceMI5 China alert will send chill through UK’s cash-strapped universitiesChina’s intelligence service used a front company to pay grants to British universities and steal crucial research about technology projects, MI5 said on Wednesday in a rare public espionage […]
  Vikram Dodd and Sally Weale
• Edinburgh joins UK universities heading for strikes as cuts spread through entire sector September 30, 2026
  Students at Edinburgh, Dundee and Nottingham face a term without any teaching as sector struggles with rising financial uncertaintyWelcome classes for students at the University of Edinburgh this year did not focus on the lectures, seminars and essays expected. Instead, students were told about how their education was going to fit in around the strikes […]
  Sally Weale and Richard Adams
• High screen time can hurt children’s learning and language skills, study suggests September 28, 2026
  Effect of elevated screen exposure could be as significant as parental behaviour and premature birth, report saysThe effect of high screen time on children is as significant as parental behaviour and premature birth, if not greater, a global study has found.Researchers examined data on more than 2.8 million children across 64 countries and concluded that […]
  Dan Milmo Global technology editor
• Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work September 28, 2026
  Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring systemTeachers at Euan Blair’s £1.6bn tech training company, Multiverse, have blown the whistle about “horrendous stress” and feeling constantly watched after bosses started using AI models to surveil and rate their teaching.Staff delivering apprenticeship training in computer and AI skills to […]
  Robert Booth UK technology editor
• ‘It’s like the Scottish Upper East Side’: shame and snobbery as American students blamed for St Andrews classism September 27, 2026
  Online comments reflect class tensions at Scottish university between those from lower-income families and wealthier US undergraduatesWhen Sophie Rose Jenkins announced she would not return to St Andrews University this academic year because of her experiences of classism on campus, she did not expect much of a response. But in the two weeks since she […]
  Patrick Greenfield
• Schoolchildren without smartphones penalised with higher bus fares September 26, 2026
  Despite guidance keeping mobile phones out of England’s schools, cheaper travel may only be available via an appSchoolchildren who do not own smartphones face paying hundreds of pounds extra in annual bus fares as cheaper travel passes are digitised.Critics argue that by only making discounts available through an app, operators are undermining government guidance to […]
  Anna Tims
• We all know a lack of exercise is bad for our bodies. So what is relying on AI doing to our brains? | Devi Sridhar September 25, 2026
  I suspect nearly all of my students use AI, and I worry about its corrosive effects. We must not entrust tech companies with our long-term healthProf Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of EdinburghWhen I was a postgraduate student at the University of Oxford in the early 2000s, I interviewed […]
  Devi Sridhar