‘More women are being nominated’
Nature
Ahead of this year’s award announcements, Göran Hansson speaks about measures to address the imbalance in gender and ethnicity among winners.
Brazilian HE’s huge progress on racial equality is under threat
Times Higher Education
President Bolsonaro’s education cuts and opposition to racial quotas will hit current policies, says Marry Ferreira.
Women Scientists Were Written Out of History
Smithsonian.com
The historian Margaret Rossiter has devoted her career to bringing to light the ingenious accomplishments of those who have been forgotten.
In the attack on experts, gender studies is often the first target
Times Higher Education
Gender studies is becoming a dangerous field in Latin America and Europe. This has implications for the fight for gender equality everywhere, says Sally Gimson.
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.
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.
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.
Not enough Africa in African studies course, say graduates
Times Higher Education
Former UCL students complain about ‘Eurocentric’ curriculum.
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.