Country must address socio-economic and regional inequalities, UN committee advises.

Overseas universities could profit from ‘escape route’ role, as China’s women resist political pressure to produce the next generation.

The winners of this year’s L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Young Talents Sub-Saharan Africa Awards.

Ushering poorer students into short-term, non-degree programmes will suppress their wages and upward mobility, says Ben Wildavsky.

Leftist faculty and high overseas enrolments also targeted in congressional hearing.

The question about the purpose of higher education has been traditionally discussed and debated by several scholars in two related ways.

Groups have formed a coalition to coordinate a multipronged effort to increase the numbers of international students studying in the US.

Despite backlash fears, quotas aimed at increasing proportion of women on academic boards can aid gender equality more broadly.

An alarming fall in the number of research students from the EU and a drop in new PhDs from China.

Access, quality and equity represent the fundamental policy pillars.

Complete careers rethink needed to allow ‘upshifts and downshifts’ during the course of a working life.

Women professors are more likely to leave the profession because of the ‘chilly climate’ of their departments.

The INSPIRE Conference gathered more than 70 brilliant minds from around the world, coming together to dive into critical themes.

‘No silver bullet’ to solving women’s higher job attrition rates, researcher warns.

Only 37 per cent of national universities require faculty to report previous disciplinary history.

Young women’s mental health has been badly hit by the Taliban’s ban on their attending school or university.