Author of London Met study attacks universities’ ‘empty platitudes and virtue signalling’.

Research finds that having just one scholar from an underrepresented group has a positive impact.

Manuscripts by female authors enjoy more favourable treatment in many disciplines, according to analysis of 350,000 journal submissions.

Whether academic is in a relationship has bigger impact on their perception of work-life balance than whether or not they have children, study finds.

The impact of the Black Lives Matter movement has raised urgent issues for universities about who should be taught what – and how.

Male PhD students reporting higher levels of psychological distress than women, survey says.

First black president pushes Virginia university to overcome its name and reputation.

Is freedom of speech threatened in academia, or are such charges simply a rhetorical move to hush up legitimate criticism?

We have the great honour to begin this series of interviews by that of Mr. Jean-Eric Paquet, Director General for R&I of the European Commission.

Ethnic minority students twice as likely to be assaulted in teaching space as white classmates.

A new set of recommendations designed to decisively tackle racial harassment as part of efforts to address racial inequality in UK higher education.

Universities UK guidance says institutions must introduce training on concepts such as white privilege.

Half of them leave when they are done.

Sexual orientation gap for men larger than gap between white and black men, study shows.

Figures suggest that graduates of UK’s highly selective institutions and specialists have widest differences in pay.

Female academics, especially mothers, face the double challenge of patriarchy and neoliberal management.

Organisers refused to engage with the problem, or offered a series of stock excuses, say campaigners.

Oldest state-funded military college has history of venerating Confederacy.