‘Policy failure’ holding back black academics
Black scholars progress in careers only through endorsement from white colleagues, warns professor
Black scholars progress in careers only through endorsement from white colleagues, warns professor
Pressure on academics to be internationally mobile is greater than ever, but the excitement of the new is often offset by strains on personal life. As the festive family reunion season gets into full...
Yong Zhao believes China doesn’t foster the free thinkers it needs. What is the state of the country’s higher education system?
Until the pandemic forced teaching to go online almost overnight, universities were widely considered impervious to major change. But if one age-old practice can be flipped on its head, why not...
A punitive attitude towards incarceration limits the access of the US’ uniquely large prison population to college degrees. But there are signs that attitudes are finally shifting. Paul Basken...
Jack Grove explores current strategies for widening participation in higher education, and finds out why improving access remains a huge challenge across the world, despite growing university...
Scholars and senior sector figures on two books they plan to devour on holiday: a new must-read and a classic worthy of revisiting
Why has resistance to the government's plans for universities failed? Alastair Hudson decries the state's success in painting legitimate protest as riot
In restoring oratory and rhetoric to a central role in public life, Barack Obama has shown how words and bearing can touch lives and change minds. Tom Palaima traces his lineage from Cato to Martin...
As a Colombian guerrilla group with leftist academic ties returns to its bloody campaign, Domenico Pacitti probes the roots of decades of violence. The failure of peace talks between the Colombian...
The year began with an interview with academic and writer Wole Soyinka, Africa's first Nobel laureate for literature. Soyinka, who spent months in jail for promoting peace with breakaway Biafra...