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  • Imran Khan sitting and being interviewed in front of Pakistani flags

    Imran Khan aims to be Oxford University’s next chancellor

  • Graduates throwing mortarboards in the air

    Golden age of English universities could be over, says head of watchdog

    Higher tuition fees and lifting visa restrictions could help with funding crisis, says Office for Students chair
  • Two female students and a male student standing in a kitchen

    Male UK university students are ‘less macho’ when sharing flats with women

    Researchers have found the competitiveness of men living in mixed flats on UK campuses significantly decreased
  • Martha Gill

    A-levels are far from perfect, but in the exam hall every pupil – rich or poor – is equally afraid

    Martha Gill
  • Rachel Cooke

    Are studies of great authors doomed as fewer students take English literature at university?

    Rachel Cooke
  • Three women on graduation day wearing gowns and mortarboards

    Higher-tariff universities admit 13% more UK school-leavers than 2023, figures show

  • Louise Haigh, the transport secretary, said ‘the previous government deliberately provoked and prolonged these [rail] strikes’.

    Labour ‘putting rail passengers first’, says minister as she blames Tories for prolonging strikes – as it happened

Our networks

Society

  • 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.

Careers

  • 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

Teachers

  • 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