Ireland’s small steps for womankind are unlikely to trigger a giant leap
Times Higher Education
Female-only professorships will speed progress to gender equality in the academy, but the pushback shows how far there still is to go.
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It’s about values, not women
Alusta
One of the concerns people express about the neoliberal academy is that you either perform it or contest it. It’s a very limited amount of options that are on offer.
Radical Irish gender plan ‘could be model for Europe’
Times Higher Education
Frustration with ‘snail’s pace’ progress across continent leads Irish government to back financial sanctions against universities that miss gender equality targets.
Black academics ‘paid thousands of pounds less’ than white peers
Times Higher Education
Major Ucea study finds ethnic minority staff suffer 'significant pay penalties' relative to white male staff with equivalent academic backgrounds.
‘Visa factories’ hijack Japanese internationalisation drive
Times Higher Education
Japan is poised to hit its internationalisation target, but some say institutions are little more than “visa factories”.
Professor Accused of Coercing Foreign Students to Be Servants
Inside Higher Education
International students from India said they feared losing their visa status if they did not comply with the demands of the professor.
Sexual abuse: university lawyers ‘serve leadership, not victims’
Times Higher Education
Legal counsel describes how she was fired after pushing for investigation into misconduct at elite US institution.
Podcast: A threat to academic freedom is a threat to women’s rights
Kilden genderresearch.no
Academic freedom is threatened by authoritarian right-wing populism in countries in Europe and Latin America.
UKRI chair promises ‘radical’ approach to tackling harassment
Times Higher Education
Sir John Kingman hints that research councils could withhold funding in cases where universities do not address unfair treatment.
EU Prize for Women Innovators
European Commission
This prize recognises women entrepreneurs who have developed and brought to market an outstanding innovation. Deadline is 16 January 2019.
MPs want UK university funding tied to tackling sexual harassment
Times Higher Education
Women and Equalities Committee call for UK to follow US Title IX example, accusing government, regulators and institutions of ‘passing the buck’.
Opinion: It’s time universities walk their decolonial talk
Times Higher Education
Universities must do more to counter Euro-white supremacy if they are going to effectively support decolonisation of disciplines, argues Heather McLean.
Major Harvard affirmative action case starts US court journey
Times Higher Education
The trial beginning on Monday will assess whether Harvard’s admissions policies discriminate against Asian-Americans in favour of black applicants.
PhD viva rule is ‘unfair on female academics’
Times Higher Education
New rules requiring a female presence on doctoral defence panels at the University of Glasgow will push more ‘unrewarded’ academic tasks on to women, critics claim
International students face ‘triple the risk’ of sexual assault
Times Higher Education
Fear and shame deter foreigners from reporting attacks, University of Canberra study finds
More than a woman: Nobel laureate wary of gender focus
Times Higher Education
Donna Strickland describes how becoming only the third woman in history to win the physics prize turned her into a ‘rock star’ overnight