Europe’s top universities mull unconscious bias training for staff
Failure to improve diversity risks ‘marginalising the impact and credibility of universities in an increasingly diverse world’, Leru warns
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IFS: tighter rein in Augar and Labour plans could be ‘right direction’
English universities may have shifted towards low-cost subjects under £9K fee regime, ‘exacerbating’ inefficiency in the system, say economists
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Interview with Wendy Thomson
The University of London’s new vice-chancellor reflects on her Canadian working class roots, leadership lessons from local government and her time in 10 Downing Street
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It’s time to get serious about open educational resources
Using free online teaching materials instead of textbooks lessens student debt and sparks pedagogical innovation, says Steven Murphy
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Widening international participation is not just about numbers
A policy to recruit genuinely the brightest and best students would have to look beyond revenue maximisation
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New journal to publish ‘negative’ results and reproducibility disputes
Open access journal will publish results from studies sometimes dismissed as ‘failures’ as well as replication attempts
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USS chair: ‘no meaningful debate’ about size of deficit
Pension fund’s deficit is likely to be worse than feared rather than better, says Sir David Eastwood
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The post-study work visa can bring more knowledge to the UK’s shores
Judith Lamie argues that the impact of the UK’s newly reinstated post-study work visa shouldn’t be measured in just pounds and pence
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Sydney lodges counter-offer on Ramsay Western civilisation proposal
Funding scholarships rather than a whole new course ‘would benefit hundreds more students’
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US university requires quarter of new students to begin abroad
In move that leaves other institutions wary, Northeastern pushing new students to foreign posts
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Looking for the smoking gun: the academics taking on Big Tobacco
Bath researchers seek to combine scholarly rigour with campaigning zeal
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UK universities losing ground on employability to rest of Europe
First data from graduate employability survey suggest surge in reputation for continental institutions
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Students play managers in ‘meaningless’ business school research
Leading professor blames pressure to publish and lack of access to chief executives
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Treatment of innocent students in cheating scandal ‘staggering’, say MPs
Committee compares Home Office attitude in ETS crackdown to Windrush scandal