Guaranteed interviews for ethnic minority applicants would also tackle postgraduate underrepresentation.

Understanding the pivotal factors driving changes is crucial and can empower us to proactively prepare for what lies ahead.

The executive director of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration has called for investigations.

Union criticises Chichester’s plan to sack Hakim Adi, first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history.

The recent United States Supreme Court decision that essentially ended affirmative action at universities will change the face of higher education.

Ethnicity and disability status also significant factors influencing likelihood of researchers being submitted, report finds.

The five conservative Republican judges of the Supreme Court of the United States have overturned the decades-long practice.

Canada reportedly rejected 59% of the visa applications from English-speaking Africans and 74% from French-speaking Africans.

Trump-installed conservative supermajority ends decades of precedent that allowed consideration of racial diversity.

In the youngest group of young adults, aged 20-25, there is a large gender gap.

Experts say there is also a need for longer-term strategies to change institutional culture.

Governor Greg Abbott signed two bills into law on Wednesday 14 June that will alter major practices at Texas’ public colleges and universities.

African National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) are increasingly making SDG 5 – gender equality – central to their work.

Ending years of intense political debate, Norway’s parliament voted this week to abolish the free-tuition policy.

With researchers reporting high rates of anxiety and depression, calls are growing to fundamentally change science before it’s too late.

A new report argues that the pandemic has exacerbated inequalities in research and innovation.