New Sheffield provost discusses the future of diversity initiatives and why he is missing from sector statistics.

Enrolment rate for free school meal and black pupils is in reverse.

Report warns domestic challenges have ‘sharpened the need’ to attract international students.

Japanese women’s universities are looking to transform in order to survive. 

Research suggests some widespread initiatives don’t work. 

Academics and students are getting older, on average. 

Academics from the Afro-Brazilian community live with subtle societal racism that is not spoken about.

Women today lead half of the Netherlands’ 14 senior research universities.

Interested organisations can apply online via the Funding and Tenders Portal until 16 October at 17:00 CET.

Here are three dilemmas about demanding researchers to learn Norwegian within their working hours, writes Olga V. Lehmann.

On-site childcare is seen as vital for meeting equality and access goals.

I took on one of the most daunting challenges of my career in 2019: a TEDx talk, writes Mary D. Hinton, president of Hollins University.

We need, instead, to develop structures that allow everyone to flourish, both academically and as parents.

Female researchers are more likely to stay at lower pay grades or to leave the sector.

Research suggests women particularly benefit from schemes that guarantee admission to highest-achieving school leavers.

Rate of women appearing on patent applications was as low as 17 per cent in Japan.