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  • Carlo GinzburgItalian historia Carlo Ginzburg, Bologna, Italy, 13th June 1996. (Photo by Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images)

    Carlo Ginzburg obituary

    Italian academic and author who challenged traditional approaches with his pursuit of microhistory
  • The Peter Chalk Centre at the University of Exeter.

    Fury over Exeter University plan to scrap dozens of humanities posts

  • New Waterside Campus at University of Northampton, Northamptonshire

    How access to higher education drives economic resilience and civic wellbeing

  • Graduation ceremony

    The Guardian view on universities: public confidence in degrees is wavering – ministers should shore it up

  • People with luggage walk past two brick gatehouses at University College London, with a domed building visible beyond

    ‘I’m missing out’: the cash-strapped UK university students forced to live at home

  • South Bank University graduates throw their caps in the air outside the Royal Festival Hall before their graduation ceremony

    One in four graduates will lose financially from going to university, IFS estimates

  • Black and white image of a smiling young couple

    A moment that changed me: A telegram arrived – and I had to choose between my head and my heart

  • Older man working at a laptop

    A more integrated education system would benefit all

  • Man in

    Harvard and Bard face fresh questions from lawmakers over ties to Epstein

  • Students at a graduation ceremony.

    Students could be required to pass GCSE English to access university loans

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

  • ‘Minor changes make a big difference for disabled people.’

    My working week: 'Julie is disabled and the only one in her team made redundant'

  • ‘During the first lockdown, social workers revealed that relationships flourished, aided by the sudden use of new technologies to communicate.’

    Children's social care has changed during Covid. That progress mustn't be lost now

    Katie Rose
  • Los Angeles Mission offers homeless Thanksgiving food and basic necessities<br>epa08842552 Hundreds of homeless people wait in line to receive Thanksgiving food and basic necessities at Los Angeles Mission in Los Angeles, California, USA, 25 November 2020. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Los Angeles Mission celebrates Thanksgiving by distributing meals and basic necessities to the homeless in lieu of its annual outdoor dining event. The number of homeless people has increased tremendously as the phenomenon seemed to be aggravated by the pandemic. EPA/ETIENNE LAURENT

    Homelessness is rising, but it is neither inevitable nor unstoppable

    Leilani Farha and Juha Kaakinen
  • SILHOUETTE OF ANONYMOUS FAMILY

    I'm so proud of you: a letter to my daughter, who escaped domestic abuse

  • Five laboratory flasks of smoking coloured liquids, with labels saying Mindset, Health, Ideas, Career, Relationships

    Chasing life goals is a recipe for disaster – so try these tiny experiments instead

    Whether its our careers, health or relationships, we often set the bar too high and end up feeling disappointed when it doesn’t work out. Try this new way of thinking … and you may just see some real results
  • A women with a blue shirt smiles while holding a small kitchen timer shaped like a tomato

    The one change that worked: I struggled to get any work done – until I bought a kitchen timer

  • People work at computer monitors in an open-plan office with light wood desks and mesh chairs

    UK’s ‘anxious generation’ of young people struggling to adapt to workplace

  • A figure being surveilled by eyes in screens

    Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance

    Nazrul Islam
  • Young woman looking bored, staring at her phone

    Doomjobbing: how the modern job hunt became a vicious loop

  • A hand touching a woman's shoulder at work, illustrating workplace harassment

    Firms with more women in top roles more likely to dismiss abusive men, study finds

  • Logo illustration displayed on smartphones in Spain - 13 Apr 2021Mandatory Credit: Photo by Thiago Prudencio/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (11856956p) In this photo illustration the LinkedIn app in App Store seen displayed on a smartphone screen with the LinkedIn logo in the background. Logo illustration displayed on smartphones in Spain - 13 Apr 2021

    Does your business English let you down? Turn it into pure corporate gibberish with LinkedIn Speak

  • Woman Shrugging Shoulders While Standing In Front Of Colleagues During Office MeetingPosed by actors - A woman wearing a red blouse shrugging her shoulders while standing in front of her colleagues as they all applaud her during an office meeting.

    Office hookworms: how to deal with colleagues who steal all the credit

  • Two businesswomen shaking hands

    Want a better job and a pay rise? Eleven ways to progress at work – and avoid a ‘dry promotion’

  • Friends and gamers cheering and high-fiving after winning a video game competition indoors at a gaming cafe

    Empathy engineer: is this the £110k job of your dreams?

  • Lola Okolosie

    I was wrong about the danger of smartphones in schools. It’s far, far worse than I thought

    Lola Okolosie
    The new ban in England should be welcomed. But teachers like me know that enforcement is time-consuming – and even, sometimes, dangerous, says English teacher Lola Okolosie
  • Pupils raise their hands to answer a teacher’s question

    Why smaller class sizes are not always the answer

  • Children in a classroom

    What is the new gender guidance for schools and colleges in England?

  • Students in classroom raising their hand

    Schools urged to trial four-day week to ease pressure on teachers in England and Wales

  • GCSE school pupils sitting exams in a school hall

    Our outdated education system feels viscerally wrong

  • The 2 Mr.P’s<br>For Guardian G2 Paula Cocozza interview. Pictured are brothers Adam(left) and Lee Parkinson in Manchester who are both teachers and have a podcast called The 2 Mr.P’s. They are pictured in St.Paul’s Primary school in Salford, Manchester where Adam works. Photo by Fabio De Paola

    The two Mr Ps on life in the classroom: ‘I’ve worked with teachers who have been hit or kicked’

  • A clock and old school desk with paper and pencils on top of it.

    Extra exam time: why do so many schoolkids suddenly need it?

  • Mossbourne Fobbing Academy, Southend Road (postcode SS178JT), Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex. 21/2/25

    ‘Pupils are in fear every day’: parents raise concerns about new schools run by top UK academy

  • David Higginbotham

    David Higginbotham obituary

  • A 4th-century funerary mosaic with Latin text

    Axing the Latin excellence scheme: a classic mistake