Paul Gilroy: is the academy taking race seriously at last?
Times Higher Education
The winner of this year’s Holberg Prize, worth over £500,000, on career setbacks, changing attitudes and decolonising the curriculum.
Women-only Cambridge college to admit men from 2021
Times Higher Education
Lucy Cavendish College to go co-educational and abolish its minimum entry age of 21.
Russell Group fears impact of post-Brexit visa salary threshold
Times Higher Education
Member universities would be unable to fill 60,000 jobs from abroad, and face increased costs too, says report.
Will the drive for gender equity get past institutional resistance?
Times Higher Education
Jocalyn Clark and Imogen Coe ask why universities have been so slow to adopt meaningful change to improve gender representation.
Gender balance in research is improving
European Commission
The number of women with a career in research is slowly growing in Europe. Still, they remain significantly underrepresented.
Progress of female leadership stalls in world’s top universities
Times Higher Education
Analysis of THE World University Rankings data shows no progress in number of women leading highest-ranked institutions.
Can I succeed as a working-class academic?
Times Higher Education
Life as an early career researcher is hard, but when you add being working class into the mix, the obstacles are almost insurmountable, writes an anonymous academic.
Universities need to promote more women to professor
The Guardian
Women are still underrepresented in leadership positions in universities – this has to change, Chris Skidmore writes.
The agony of microaggression and discrimination knocked me out
Times Higher Education
A student’s mysterious accusation of racism saw P. K. Newby removed from her course – and another woman lost from the leaky pipeline
Sussex v-c: ‘dramatic change’ needed to tackle bullying culture
Times Higher Education
Adam Tickell acknowledges university has ‘failed’ staff and students in the past but says improving well-being is his top priority.
Australian universities ‘should not apologise’ for foreign recruitment
Times Higher Education
‘Why is being incredibly successful a problem?’ asks Universities Australia chair Margaret Gardner.
The Pregnancy Penalty
Inside Higher Ed
Unfortunately, many people still have backward ideas about the ability of women to succeed in academe after having children, writes Terri E. Givens.
Trailing spouse academics ‘face pay discrimination’
Times Higher Education
US study suggests hiring panels may offer worse terms to female scientists seeking jobs at their partner’s institution than to equally qualified solo candidates.
‘Alarming’ insularity of German university leaders revealed
Times Higher Education
Many presidents have pursued their careers just at one institution, raising questions about management skills, report finds.
Impostor syndrome: two-thirds of female scholars suffer badly
Times Higher Education
Impostor syndrome: two-thirds of female scholars suffer badly.
Recruitment strategies are failing academics from ethnic minorities
Times Higher Education
UK universities must begin by assessing their recruitment strategies and interviewing processes, says Roshan Doug.