Keep Athena SWAN, but drop funding link for now, say reviewers
Times Higher Education
Leading academics respond to government plan amid fears that equality issues will be sidelined.
Has South African higher education walked the long road to equality?
Times Higher Education
South African campuses were convulsed by protests against racism and inequitable university access as recently as four years ago.
Campus racism inspired Booker-shortlisted ‘Real Life’
Times Higher Education
His campus novel is inspired by real life and whether creative writing can be taught.
University promises minority review of black student applications
Times Higher Education
Calgary initiative aims to stamp out unconscious bias in law and medicine.
The Future of College Admissions Is Test Blind
Inside Higher Ed
A judge has undermined systemic racism by making the University of California test blind, write Joseph A. Soares and Jay Rosner.
Lectures’ days are numbered at Leeds as new v-c takes charge
Times Higher Education
Simone Buitendijk emphasises that efforts to improve diversity must not be left to under-represented groups.
Canada scores well on governance diversity but has more to do
Times Higher Education
While finding seats as university directors, minorities still lack teaching equity and questions remain over ‘check-box representation’.
Harnessing the power of technology can help vulnerable students
Times Higher Education
Hayley Mulenda argues that effective use of data analytics and greater diversity of academic staff are crucial.
Universities ‘complicit’ in racism and sexism, says Cape Town v-c
Times Higher Education
Mamokgethi Phakeng says universities often ‘part of the machine’ that perpetuates white privilege and exploitation of Global South.
Leadership qualities do not have a gender
Times Higher Education
Obliging women to adopt ‘male’ characteristics is not just unfair – it also impoverishes university management, says Corinne Houart.
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, by Kate Manne
Times Higher Education
Emma Rees praises a lively yet forensic analysis of systemic misogyny.
Finding the right formula for feminism
Times Higher Education
The Chicago-based British mathematician tells Matthew Reisz why similar out-of-the-box thinking is required to improve gender equality.
Call to create decolonisation role in each university department
Times Higher Education
Hepi report says universities need to move past the idea that decolonisation is merely an equality and diversity issue.
Germany moves to scrap committee gender parity quotas
Times Higher Education
Too-high targets overburden female academics with administrative work and hold back their careers, research foundation concludes .
Boys more likely to apply to elite institutions, research finds
Times Higher Education
Study also shows that the most advantaged teenagers are more likely to apply to Oxford or Cambridge than the least advantaged.
Refugee academics feel ‘patronised’ over status
Times Higher Education
Some scholars who have fled to Europe worry others see them more as refugees than as experts.