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.
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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.
Not enough Africa in African studies course, say graduates
Times Higher Education
Former UCL students complain about ‘Eurocentric’ curriculum.
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.
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.
Male economists more likely to accept papers by other men
Times Higher Education
Gap in acceptance rates for major European conferences entirely down to behaviour of male referees.
Mostly men at the top in academia
Tidningen Curie
Men continue to dominate the top level of academia, a report from the AllBright Foundation shows.
Fresh warning on Australian universities’ China exposure
Times Higher Education
Institutions assume they will be bailed out if enrolments fall because they are ‘too big to fail’, says report.
Domestic students feel more isolated than foreign learners
Times Higher Education
International students feel “at home” while locals feel left out on outsized Australian campus, says Michael Spence.
US science chief sees need for even-handedness in China crackdown
Times Higher Education
The director of the US National Institutes of Health has denied any xenophobic intent in its crackdown on academic scientists with ties to China.
German academia faces reckoning over lack of diversity
Times Higher Education
As in the UK and the US, universities face questions about whether their curricula feature enough non-white voices.
Women participate less in bigger science classes, study finds
Times Higher Education
Universities urged to reconsider use of large introductory lectures.
Canada sets new equity targets for premier science grants
Times Higher Education
Updated settlement ties racial and gender distribution to national shares of population.