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Sioux McKenna writes about the systematic assault on American higher education.

Universities spend a great deal of time talking about international diversity, writes Louise Nicol.

Commission will test lotteries to award funds when proposal quality scores are equal. 

Higher education plays a fundamental role, write Rodríguez-Ponce, Durán and Sánchez.

Women leaders in science face deep-rooted gender-based societal barriers. 

A political controversy over the highly sensitive issue of racial discrimination has erupted in Malaysia.

The role of mentoring has traditionally been part of the relationship between teachers and their students.
 

US Secretary of Education L. McMahon has ordered the termination of more than one-third of a billion dollars. 
 

Students around the world are more confident about career prospects but are increasingly concerned about a range of other issues.

Students around the world are increasingly concerned about student diversity, according to the latest Global Student Satisfaction Report.

How do universities in Sub-Saharan Africa address issues of gender identity?

Engineering still reflects colonial legacies and often sidelines non-Western knowledge systems, writes R. A. Shajahan and A. P. Seinn.

The recruiters struggle to speak coherently about race could, writes Prof-Collins Ifeonu.

When a physicist from a low-income country submits a paper to a scientific journal, the odds are stacked against them. 

Educational institutions are increasingly looking to new populations to diversify their campuses.

How the debate on academic languages targets inclusion of foreign scholars, writes Olga V. Lehmann.