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• US university’s commencement speaker reveals he will pay off students’ final-year loans May 12, 2026
  Anil Kochhar hopes textile graduates of North Carolina State can leave with ‘greater freedom to pursue goals’Anil Kochhar, a North Carolina State University donor, gave graduates of the school’s Wilson College of Textiles a lot more than just words of wisdom when he delivered their keynote commencement address recently.The Indian American entrepreneur also announced that […]
  Ramon Antonio Vargas
• Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy May 12, 2026
  Institution says it could run out of money by 2031 and wants to cut more than 600 academic and support postsThousands of staff at the University of Nottingham have been told to prepare for redundancy as part of swingeing financial cuts that academics say will harm the institution’s future.The university’s administration sent letters to 2,700 […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• Youth mobility scheme disagreement hampering reset of UK-EU relations May 12, 2026
  Deal was expected by end of month but talks hit buffers over cap on number of people entering UK and tuition feesSignificant gaps remain in negotiations on the reset in relations between the UK and the EU despite Keir Starmer’s latest pledge to put Britain “at the heart of Europe” after last week’s election drubbing.The […]
  Lisa O’Carroll
• Birmingham City University urged not to axe Black studies MA May 11, 2026
  More than 100 figures sign open letter criticising closure, just months after MA was launchedMore than 100 academics, writers and activists from around the world have signed an open letter condemning plans to close an MA in Black studies and global justice at Birmingham City University (BCU), just months after it was first launched.The move […]
  Sally Weale Education correspondent
• Cambridge University seeks deal with Saudi defence ministry despite rights concerns May 11, 2026
  Senior academics describe the Judge business school’s proposal to provide services and training as ‘horrifying’Cambridge University’s business school is seeking to provide “leadership development” and “innovation management” to Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry despite concerns over its government’s record on human rights and climate change, the Guardian has learned.Cambridge’s leadership has approved a proposal by the […]
  Wilf Vall and Richard Adams
• ‘One of the greatest invisible tragedies’: is the loss of childhood imagination inevitable? May 10, 2026
  We have created the most stifling and sanitised imaginative space conceivable for children, says teacher Brendan James Murray. Today true imagination has become a radical actThe six children sit together at the waterline in roaring wind. Seagulls dip and strain, beating their wings against the gusts as, far below, waves crest, thump, whisper. A girl, […]
  Brendan James Murray
• I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan May 10, 2026
  The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into wordsI have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since 2017. Many of my students last wrote fiction in middle school, and very few have experienced a proper workshop, so at the start of […]
  Micah Nathan
• My kids are taking their first big exams – and revealing my own anxieties about AI and long division | Emma Brockes May 7, 2026
  As the traditional route of school, university and entry-level job is ever more precarious, it’s no wonder parents are feeling the strainCalled on to do long division, how would you fare? I had no illusions going in. I couldn’t do it the first time round and, four decades later, it seemed unlikely the situation had […]
  Emma Brockes