Nature Communications blasted for paper knocking female mentors Scientists ask why major journal published findings that female mentors may be bad for your career, even after reviewers pointed out flaws in the paper’s methodology By Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed 23 November
Howard Gardner: teach students how to ‘synthesise’, not memorise Father of multiple intelligences theory says pursuit of deep inquiry is ‘a foolish investment’ in today’s AI-driven world By Ellie Bothwell 22 November
Top union sees campus labour activism gaining under Biden Possible new US education secretary also pushes major federal college investment By Paul Basken 20 November
Biden gives cautious opening to student loan forgiveness Incoming US president stresses need for action but avoids key details By Paul Basken 19 November
Gay men ‘significantly under-represented’ in science Sexual orientation may have greater impact on academic choices than race, US data suggest By Paul Basken 18 November
Faculty underwhelmed as Stanford belatedly tackles Covid sceptic Wider reckoning expected after White House ally Scott Atlas urges uprising against governor By Paul Basken 18 November
Is Jill Biden US higher education’s secret weapon? Being married to a long-serving community college lecturer means incoming president will have a regular insider’s view By Paul Basken 18 November
After Trump, can universities help rebuild the American dream? Observers concerned by lack of coordinated effort to tackle populism and its causes By Paul Basken 17 November
Former Harvard coach and parent arrested in admissions case Businessman accused of aiding false charity and buying coach’s house to win sons entry By Paul Basken 17 November
US international recruitment down 43 per cent as pandemic hits Covid massively accelerates decline that was already under way, seen as being driven by Trump administration policies By Paul Basken 16 November
Biden faces struggle to reboot foreign student recruitment in US President-elect will have to do more than reverse Trump’s executive orders to rebuild the reputation of US higher education, say experts By Ellie Bothwell 12 November
Gospel dupe: the Harvard scholar seduced by Jesus’ ‘wife’ There are lessons for academia in the scandal of the pornographer, the fake papyrus and a theologian’s fall, says author By Matthew Reisz 12 November