Are university campuses turning into mini smart cities?

Universities are experimenting with AI and big data to improve how students live and learn on campus

Drones and big data: the next frontier in the fight against wildlife extinction

Emerging technologies are a boon for the work of conservation researchers, but not all universities are equipped for them

‘Universities stamp out creativity’: are graduates ready for work?

Universities are changing the way they teach to prepare students for a future in which lots of jobs will be automated

School climate strikes: share your videos and stories

If you’re taking part in this week’s YouthStrike4Climate event in the UK, we’d like to hear from you

Minister rejects call for blanket ban on mobile phones in schools

Education secretary Damian Hinds says decision should be left up to individual headteachers

Social media urged to take ‘moment to reflect’ after girl’s death

Children’s commissioner for England writes open letter highlighting ‘horrific’ content

Oxford places ban on donations and research grants from Huawei

University’s decision on Chinese tech firm comes as national security concerns mount in the west

Impact of social media on children faces fresh scrutiny

UK researchers study 40,000 households to explore biggest risk factors for mental health

Popcorn and pliés … ballet turns to cinemas to get children dancing

Northern Ballet tries a new way to break down barriers to the increasingly elitist world of classical dance

Political, forensic, hi-tech: how ‘research architecture’ is redefining art

In the 1990s, Goldsmiths college in London spawned the YBAs. Now, it has incubated a very different group – whose work is as likely to turn up in an international court as in a gallery

How do universities prepare graduates for jobs that don’t yet exist?

Most children today will work in jobs that haven’t been invented. They need their education system to keep up

Can you solve it? Do you speak Twitter?

Test your knowledge of Tweet-speak, plus a social media maths puzzle

One in 10 children ‘often lonely’, according to ONS figures

Report finds 27.5% of children who received free school meals said they were often lonely

Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics?

Three academics are launching a new journal in which arguments can be made anonymously. But is separating ideas from their authors the best way forward?

I know all about being bullied by racists. That’s the Britain I grew up in

Our country is vastly changed, but creating ‘hostile environments’ has consequences