Should universities ban staff-student relationships?
As several UK universities outlaw sex between academics and students, two writers offer differing views on the Office for Students’ proposed ban
As several UK universities outlaw sex between academics and students, two writers offer differing views on the Office for Students’ proposed ban
America’s two-year public colleges are often romanticised as engines of social mobility and the epitome of the educative mission. But one academic has found the reality to be very different, with...
After years of resisting university managers determined to graduate students at all costs, one US professor decided it was time to quit
Linguistic framing of coronavirus on campus by management has dodged a proper assessment of risks to students and staff, writes a UK academic
Chinese universities now operate on a confusing ‘mixture of Chinese and Western institutional logics’. An anonymous scholar describes the practical and emotional challenges of dealing with constant...
Bavaria’s rules to keep university tutors on precarious contracts unfairly penalise those who want to work, says a lecturer caught out by red tape
Sexism, unthinking managerialism and toxic ‘them and us’ attitudes are still pervasive within UK universities, according to an anonymous academic who found the dissonances between her values, career...
Like the rest of society, universities have largely failed to consider the specific needs of menopausal women. Here, one scholar describes how this can lead to marginalisation and bullying – and why...
A lecturer describes how her university failed to act when she was racially victimised by a student receiving mental health support
Three scholars reflect on finding new purpose outside the academy
Human beings can only work at full capacity for so long before they become incapable of doing any work at all, says an anonymous university employee
Life as an early career researcher is hard, but when you add being working class into the mix, the obstacles are almost insurmountable, writes an anonymous academic facing the death of her university...
Marketisation, precarity and global competition have combined to create a vast market for academic ghostwriting, says an anonymous scholar
This growing but still unacknowledged phenomenon in higher education is badly in need of ethical oversight, says an anonymous academic
An anonymous university leader muses about what could happen to higher education in the UK if tuition fees are slashed