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A lawyer and a clinical psychologist in the US explain how America’s universities are becoming more ‘trauma-informed’.

Westminster looks to new ways for students from 150 countries to explore their differences.

In academia, and more widely, women are too easily relegated to the ‘less competent than men’ category, writes Athene Donald.

This policy brief provides evidence-based, concrete recommendations for national level policy makers and institutional science leaders.

Just over half feel promotion process not transparent and fair, internal report finds

In Home Office and shadow education brief, Ms May has long history with higher education.

Women walk a "tightrope" to a successful university career, but many are falling short.

The world is increasingly embracing digital technology, and so too are our schools. But many girls are still missing out on developing IT and programming skills.

Women are fleeing the lab in larger numbers than men.

Given that women outnumber men as undergraduate and graduate students, we might expect to see increasing trends towards parity of women and men as university leaders. But we don’t.

Although women now comprise 60% of graduates in the European Union, they continue to be under-represented in leadership roles in higher education and make up only a third of researchers across all sectors.

Giving female scholars one-off sums to ‘compensate’ for the pay gap rewards biology rather than merit, argues Joanna Williams.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, has decided to find out whether its fabled grantsmaking process discriminates against African-American scientists.

BME learners rate teaching less positively and may lose out by living at home, Hepi-HEA survey finds.

For the first time, women will hold both of the board’s top leadership positions.

The outcome of the pending Fisher v. Texas Supreme Court case on affirmative action rests on whether the Supreme Court determines that race violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.