Europe’s top universities mull unconscious bias training for staff
Times Higher Education
Failure to improve diversity risks ‘marginalising the impact and credibility of universities in an increasingly diverse world’, Leru warns.
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UK universities losing ground on employability to rest of Europe
Times Higher Education
First data from graduate employability survey suggest surge in reputation for continental institutions.
Sexual harassment in Ukrainian universities must be tackled
Times Higher Education
Free of Communist-era secretiveness, the new president might be willing to tackle abuses of power on campus, says Ararat Osipian.
Research intelligence: women rewrite the publication ‘rules’
Times Higher Education
Oxford professor’s response to male scholar’s guide to publication considers gendered nature of research career advice.
MIT Media Lab director quits over ‘hidden ties to Epstein’
Times Higher Education
Joi Ito alleged to have made extensive efforts to hide millions of dollars donated by sexual abuser.
Gender pay gap for UK economists ‘unchanged in 20 years’
Times Higher Education
Women paid significantly less than men even when they are in the same role, conference hears.
Not enough Africa in African studies course, say graduates
Times Higher Education
Former UCL students complain about ‘Eurocentric’ curriculum.
EU should aim for gender equality in Horizon Europe
Science business
As he resigns as rector of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gunnar Bovim calls for the EU to attract more women project leaders to its research programmes.
Making an impact with diversity and inclusion
Times Higher Education
A Times Higher Education and HSBC UK roundtable examined policies and programmes that could improve representation.
Keeping it in the family: siblings shape university choices
Times Higher Education
Sociologists demonstrate that brothers and sisters influence the courses students pick.
Who does the housekeeping in academia?
Tidningen Curie
“Academic housekeeping” steals time from research, and does not add merit. Academic housekeeping is the invisible work primarily carried out by women.
Abuse case professor ‘could have been stopped sooner’
Times Higher Education
Former colleagues call for investigations to disclose what Strathclyde and Heriot-Watt universities knew about Kevin O’Gorman’s conduct.
Fresh warning on Australian universities’ China exposure
Times Higher Education
Institutions assume they will be bailed out if enrolments fall because they are ‘too big to fail’, says report.
Male economists more likely to accept papers by other men
Times Higher Education
Gap in acceptance rates for major European conferences entirely down to behaviour of male referees.
Mostly men at the top in academia
Tidningen Curie
Men continue to dominate the top level of academia, a report from the AllBright Foundation shows.
Domestic students feel more isolated than foreign learners
Times Higher Education
International students feel “at home” while locals feel left out on outsized Australian campus, says Michael Spence.