Historian’s comfort women trial was ‘cancel culture on steroids’
As seven-year case against South Korean professor Park Yu-ha concludes, academics say the deep political divisions that lay behind it are not going away any time soon
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Elite university diversity drive raises Australian eyebrows
Top-ranked institutions’ contribution to equity should go further than ‘picking the top 10 students from every school’, experts say
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California ‘reclassifies workers to duck pay rises’ won in strike
Record walkout at top public US system won graduate students a new contract, but ambiguous details have left them struggling with lower-than-expected pay
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TEF appeals ‘won’t be resolved until the end of the year’
Institutions without ratings at a disadvantage during crucial recruitment period as many wrongly assume appeals are due to their being designated ‘requires improvement’
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Universities to take smaller spin-out stakes as Hunt backs review
Guidelines produced by Oxford vice-chancellor and venture capitalist designed to drive greater private investment in research start-ups
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University leaders must resist funder pressure to toe ideological lines
If politicians and donors disagree with student or faculty views, they should challenge their soundness, not threaten defunding, says Richard Joseph
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US sees record drop in enrolment on languages courses
Funding and focus on job training blamed as five major European languages lose around a fifth of their enrolment in five years
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Economist quits German research institute after academics protest
Almost 700 scholars signed an open letter protesting Armin Falk’s appointment to the Institute of Labor Economics, referencing sexual misconduct allegations
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No ‘one size fits all’ model for transnational education
Curricula should be adapted to suit local skills needs, Edinburgh conference hears
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UCU threatens strikes over Oxford Brookes cuts
Union members declare no confidence in vice-chancellor over proposed plan that would see closure of departments
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Mounting debt poses threat to mission, Chicago warned
Fearing pressure on the humanities, professor runs the numbers and sees his elite institution in danger of falling short
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Star academic sues New Zealand university over Covid abuse
Auckland failed to give public commentary the level of occupational protection that would be mandatory in the laboratory, says colleague of Siouxsie Wiles
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Sunak government final straight offers ‘diminished vision of HE’
Pledge to rebalance from ‘poor-quality degrees’ to apprenticeships seen as likely rhetoric only, but there are hopes for international student reset
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Less than half of top universities publish AI guidelines
Lack of clear guidelines may put instructors on ‘defensive’ over students’ use of ChatGPT, researchers say
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Former university presidents: stop blaming faculty for your mistakes
It defies history and logic to lay decades of failure by administrators, trustees and legislators at tenured professors’ door, says Harvey Graff