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Calls disappear and budgets are cut in the latest Cluster 2 draft work programme for 2025.

Three senior female academics are in the running to be the next rector of Norway’s University of Oslo.

Male Syrian university students managed to escape compulsory military service.

Milestone is little comfort to staff stuck on insecure contracts, says union.

While some women may not feel safe with numbers, according to stereotype, Katie Buchhorn uses numbers to help keep women safe.

Female higher education enrolment on the rise in parts of Asia but richer countries least diverse.

Promote teamwork to improve gender equity, Australian analysis suggests.

Increasing digital surveillance on campuses reproduces racial and economic injustices.

New Sheffield provost discusses the future of diversity initiatives and why he is missing from sector statistics.

Enrolment rate for free school meal and black pupils is in reverse.

Report warns domestic challenges have ‘sharpened the need’ to attract international students.

Japanese women’s universities are looking to transform in order to survive. 

Research suggests some widespread initiatives don’t work. 

Academics and students are getting older, on average. 

Academics from the Afro-Brazilian community live with subtle societal racism that is not spoken about.

Women today lead half of the Netherlands’ 14 senior research universities.