Empty lectures aren’t just dismaying – they’re a social justice issue
With ethnic minority students missing disproportionately more classes, traditional timetabling risks widening attainment gaps, says Christopher Byrne
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Team research pilot tackles dominance of principal investigators
Alternative to traditional principal investigator-led approach aims to bring different voices to the fore
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Latin America University Rankings 2024: methodology
The World University Rankings performance indicators are the heart of the Latin America University Rankings, but we make some adjustments to take account of the region’s unique characteristics
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Academics’ time increasingly taken up with research security
Research institutes ‘unprepared’ for impact of growing focus on national security amid geopolitical shifts, survey finds
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More UK university history departments cutting jobs and courses
Survey by the Royal Historical Society finds axe is falling most heavily on post-92 institutions
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Don’t let equality push ‘fall by the wayside’, urges race pioneer
New Sheffield provost discusses the future of diversity initiatives, the importance of free movement of scholars and why he is missing from sector statistics
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Heitor report is most compelling vision yet for EU’s post-Horizon future
With its focus on breakthrough research and innovation, Manuel Heitor’s plan for European research should be commended, says Jan Palmowski
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‘Covid-scale’ job cuts engulf Australian universities
“Workforce change” processes under way at seven institutions likely to claim well over 1,200 jobs, with more campuses expected to follow suit
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Australian segmentation study unpacks uniphobia
Some resisters mistrust tertiary education but others just do not see the need
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China’s PhD expansion ‘delays’ graduate employment challenges
Beijing announces plans to expand doctoral programmes in key disciplines and offers more financial aid
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Dutch funder’s grants to ‘flip’ journals to diamond open access
NWO initiative seeks to address concerns about sustainability of free to read, free to publish model
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India row adds to challenge of attracting students to Canada
Non-Punjabi Indians may reconsider study destination as diplomatic row shows little sign of cooling
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Rescinding Australian visa processing directive ‘not a panacea’
Demand for Australian education may have sunk so far that visa processing rearrangements will make little difference
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Why don’t all researchers share their data openly?
Tailored guidance, standards, tools and infrastructure are needed to make data more accessible and interoperable across the globe, says Daniel Keirs
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A single tertiary regulator is no guarantee of a seamless system
Wales’ groundbreaking Medr must boldly rethink how education and training work for society and the economy, says Ellen Hazelkorn