A working-class accent in academia is a blessing and a curse
Colleagues may judge those with regional accents more harshly, but poorer students respond to lecturers from similar backgrounds, says Ryan Coogan
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Fresh strike ballots at 13 UK universities over pay and pensions
Step comes as employers and union debate equality, casualisation and workload, without movement on pay offer
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Ontario students win court battle to protect fees from Ford
Judges find provincial government improperly violated universities’ autonomy
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Australia leads world on university access – will others follow?
Analysis of data from the THE Impact Rankings suggests big gaps remain on helping poorest communities globally to get into university
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Forced off campus, Hong Kong universities take teaching digital
Academics are ‘putting in a lot of effort’ to ensure students are not harmed by shutdown
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Peak China? Anglophone nations told to rethink foreign enrolments
Number of student visas issued to Chinese nationals by Australia, Canada, UK and US grew 4.5 per cent from 2016 to 2019, as expansion slows
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US universities’ Gulf ties under mounting scrutiny
Government’s financial disclosure demand raises logistical and reputational woes
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When recruiting in Africa, you’re either too early or too late – or both
International student recruitment in sub-Saharan Africa is a long game prone to political disruption, says Anna Esaki-Smith
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Australia’s information squeeze muzzles education research and reporting
Higher education is not unaffected by the chokehold on press freedom in Australia, says John Ross
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‘Solid’ support for strikes as staff rally over pay and pensions
Thousands walk out, but universities say they expect ‘low to medium’ levels of disruption
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UK strikes: staff on picket lines ‘fighting for future of HE’
After last year’s walkout over pensions, this year’s action is ‘part of something bigger’, say union members
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Top Australian universities ‘raise four times as much as rivals’
While overall fundraising haul is down, report says annual variations are to be expected
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Qualification recognition is a question of fairness and access
Unesco’s efforts to enable degree qualification recognition across borders will improve access to higher education for refugees and displaced people, says Joanna Newman
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Tory manifesto pledges to ‘consider carefully’ Augar plans
Conservatives also aim to tackle ‘low-quality courses’ in England and ‘reform the science funding system’