The systemic inequity of ‘letterhead bias’ in US law journals
Stephen Thomson outlines his evidence of ‘letterhead bias’ in legal academic publishing and suggests ways to dismantle it
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Moving standardised exams online won’t solve our testing problem
Moving paper tests online increases access and security problems. Rather, online exams should be ‘digital first’, says Burr Settles
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Tackling racism has to be a priority for universities, forum told
Universities must put as much effort into equality and diversity strategies as they do into other areas, say leading academics
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Australian government told that students ‘ignore price signals’
While Australia’s fee and subsidy reshuffle favours job-growth areas, student and institutional recalcitrance may blunt its impact
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Goldsmiths staff ‘at breaking point’ on job losses and racism claims
Casual staff start marking boycott over failure to extend contracts, move seen as having outsized impact on BAME and female academics
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Australian shake-up ‘greatest hit to humanities in a century’
Government’s proposals are contradictory and will torpedo its jobs agenda, humanities lobby warns
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Doubts emerge over effects of Australia’s sweeping fee changes
With student choice relied on to free up money for more university places, critics question the strategy and potential impacts
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Performing arts isn’t the tolerant refuge you think it is
Rishi Trikha says his experiences of racism and homophobia in a conservatoire show that creative fields have to be part of anti-racism conversations, too
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Gender and ethnicity graduate gap outlined by new UK data
First release of Graduate Outcomes, which looks at what people are doing 15 months after leaving university, shows stark differences for some groups
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UK university applicants rapidly needed certainty. They didn’t get it
Fee caps should be dependent on what universities can actually provide in a pandemic, says prospective fresher Nélson Fernandes Serrão
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Australian short course initiative ‘should be properly funded’
Discounted courses ‘are what the country needs’, but the numbers don’t stack up for universities
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Essay mills ‘targeting students’ as pandemic crisis shifts HE online
New guidance from UK’s QAA says shift to online learning has left students vulnerable to contract cheating services
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US colleges welcome Supreme Court rejection of Trump bid to end Daca
Upholding of immigration protections, after challenge led by University of California, means legal relief for about 200,000 students
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Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter, by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith
Kalwant Bhopal thinks that the authors of a new anti-racism toolkit need to go deeper
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Radical changes to Australia’s fees to fund 39,000 new places
Winners and losers in minister’s proposal, with vocational degrees set to cost less as humanities fees explode