Gender bias still afflicts female academic leaders
Mutual support networks and mentoring can help more women attain senior positions, say Efthalia Chatzigianni and Bryony Whitmarsh
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‘Beyond frustrating’ for Palestinian refugee denied UK PhD visa
Amena El Ashkar was hoping to study a PhD in international relations at the London School of Economics but her visa was rejected
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‘Academic solipsism’ risk from chatbot use, warns university head
Growing use of chatbots within higher education is likely to foster unoriginal and ‘solipsistic’ thought, says IE president
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Universities ‘should make common cause’ against political enmity
Competitors can be friends when government acts like your enemy, Sydney round table hears
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China prioritises research spending despite economic downturn
Central investment might go some way to mitigate declining spending by local government and industry
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UK funding crisis forces three more universities to cut jobs
Winchester, Surrey and Queen Mary latest to shed academic positions as industrial disputes heat up elsewhere
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Merging two major universities is a tense but rewarding Odyssey
No journey in strange new waters can be smooth sailing, but healthy conflicts have a place in innovation and transformation, say David Lloyd and Peter Høj
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University presses rack up legal bills over AI copyright breaches
London Book Fair discussion dominated by concern over large language models using published works without citations or remuneration to authors or publishing houses
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Portuguese university apologises after sexual misconduct claims
Investigation follows publishing controversy that saw chapter detailing allegations withdrawn by Routledge
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Bangladesh and Vietnam ‘rising stars’ for student recruitment
India and China expected to remain top sending markets to 2030, but overall growth rate set to slow
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Courting controversy
As battles over industrial relations and identity politics rage, higher education’s fault lines are increasingly a matter for the courts. Is anyone winning?
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South African vice-chancellors’ pay rises ‘morally bankrupt’
Average remuneration up by 8 per cent, including multimillion-rand bonus for former Johannesburg head
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Lectures in question as paid work pushes attendance even lower
Emotional strain of facing near-empty auditoriums should prompt review of university lecturing, says psychologist
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Job-share vice-chancellors call to drive flexible working shift
UK universities must make flexible working ‘the default’, including in high-salary jobs, to tackle gender pay gaps, says thinktank
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The week in higher education – 14 March 2024
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media