As a black, female student, I wish I’d had a peer mentoring scheme
Times Higher Education
Asking more experienced students to volunteer to help first-years navigate their university journey, writes Bernadine Idowu.
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Free speech champions seen as fix for academic freedom ‘crisis’
Times Higher Education
Institutions should assign a senior university manager to uphold academic freedom in same way as equality is promoted at board level, says report.
Female academics’ career opportunities ‘reduced after #MeToo’
Times Higher Education
World-first study highlights need for clear sexual harassment policies, suggesting that men became more wary of collaborating with female colleagues.
Academic says racist abuse a regular occurrence in Ireland
Times Higher Education
Senior lecturer in Islam receives note telling him to ‘go back to where he belongs’ in latest of several menacing incidents.
Gender gap ‘impossible to overcome’ without ‘intervention’
Times Higher Education
Everyday researchers must be promoted equitably and star researchers must be hired equitably, New Zealand study finds.
USC fraternity battle spotlights academia’s failings on abuse
Times Higher Education
Chapters’ severing of campus affiliation predicted to show US sector’s reluctance to challenge ‘Greek life’ abuses.
Is Japanese higher education finally becoming a woman’s place?
Times Higher Education
Japan ranks low for gender equality and Japanese women have long complained that the domestic demands on them.
Norway bids to attract men to female-dominated university courses
Times Higher Education
Experts say well-researched tools will be needed to draw more young men into medicine, psychology, dentistry and veterinary studies.
Pandemic impact on female publishing ‘smaller than thought’
Times Higher Education
In some countries, male researchers’ article output appears to have been more adversely affected, according to new study.
Science a key ally to tackle the multiple challenges we face
Horizon Magazine
Jean-Eric Paquet has been at the helm of the Horizon programme and DG Research and Innovation for the past four years.
Launch of the EU Award for Gender Equality Champions
European Commission
Today, the Commission launches the EU Award for Gender Equality Champions, a new prize.
Student evaluations show gender bias even in most equal country
Times Higher Education
Male students at university in Iceland tended to rate their female teachers lower than male counterparts in both teaching and course organisation.
People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia
The Washington Post
First-generation academics were always rare. Now they’re vanishing.
Equality scheme letter ‘crossed line’, universities tell Donelan
Times Higher Education
UUK letter to minister says it is ‘unclear what evidence is available’ to back claim that external schemes threaten free speech and requests meeting.
Recruitment reforms urged to curb French ‘moustache positions’
Times Higher Education
Parisian professor says hers is the first to appoint a selection committee by lot, an approach that should be taken up nationwide.
Donelan tells universities to consider leaving equality schemes
Times Higher Education
English institutions told to ‘reflect carefully’ on whether initiatives such as Race Equality Charter are in conflict with duty to uphold free speech.