Leader of a Canadian university upsets some students and professors with analysis of blackface incidents in higher education.

The online training is a response to growing concerns about sexual abuse on campuses.

Scholar warns that rising numbers of international university staff in Singapore could ‘make the academy more conservative’.

Those surveyed said they were systematically overlooked for promotion and mistaken for clerical staff.

Unsupportive senior staff and ‘unjust’ promotion practices are major problems reported by black female professors, says equity researcher

The Government has launched measures to drive change in tackling inequalities between ethnic groups in higher education.

Policing international students’ speech and threatening them with discrimination for speaking their own language is abhorrent, writes Susan D. Blum.

Recruiter and ex-Sussex chair Simon Fanshawe aims to tackle biases around gender, ethnicity and university background.

Since the 1970s, an increasingly competitive job market has come to advantage the already privileged.

Failure to recruit local PhDs will erode Australia’s skill base, report warns.

Colleges can dramatically improve success rates of low-income, first-generation students by working across units, argue Adrianna Kezar and Elizabeth Holcombe.

Our dominant mental model of identity is not only wrong, it hurts minorities.

They are morally necessary, Charlotte M. Canning and Richard J. Reddick write.

Having more women on appointment committees has dramatically cut the number of female academics getting hired, according to analysis.

The stigma and fear of sexuality research must change if it is to inform any legal reform that comes in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

UMBC’s success in producing black graduates who later earn science doctorates may prove tough to replicate.

Foreign-born academics outperform US counterparts on numerous productivity measures, analysis shows.

Latest Indigenous scholar to leave post urges universities to focus on student support, not ‘tokenistic’ senior positions