McGill warns French-language plan ‘puts its future in question’
Top-ranked Canadian institution calculates financial and reputational cost of premier’s move to penalise use of English, and wonders how it can survive
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Campus security is deepening institutional racism in UK HE
Our research suggests students of colour are more likely to have negative encounters with campus guards, say Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Laura Connelly
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Criticisms endure as US-Israel student exchange resumes
After brief pause to assess security, Birthright programme again gives Jewish students free tours of nation, but faces questions over limited Palestinian perspective
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EU drops limit on fixed-term contracts but sector concerns remain
Revised policy fails to address key causes of research career precarity, university leaders say
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Scottish cuts ‘based on incorrect assumption’ of overseas subsidy
University leaders warn of ‘deepening pain’ from latest cuts, amid ‘concerning headwinds’ on international recruitment
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Gay resignation must prompt reform of US university codes of conduct
Codes’ vague, narrow and toothless provisions are failing to promote the safety and well-being of all university community members, says Richard Joseph
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Paris students decry plans to use housing for Olympics
Supreme court rules student leases can be ended early despite legal challenge
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Has there been an exodus of academics from conservative states?
Difficulties finding new roles and uprooting families complicate desires to leave states such as Florida after political meddling
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The view from the bridge
Recent years have thrown up both predictable challenges and unforeseeable exogenous events at universities. What do sector leaders foresee in 2024?
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My favourite fictional academic
From satirical novels to US sitcoms and cop shows, academics have proved to be rich source material across many genres. Four writers argue the case for who can claim to be fiction’s greatest scholar
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Interview with Barbara Savage
The biographer of the first black American woman to study at Oxford discusses life in segregated schools in the South, why affirmative action still matters and ‘election-style’ efforts to unseat...
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Ethnic minorities rarely shown positively in lecture slides
Study explores under-researched aspect of ‘hidden curriculum’ that might affect racial inequalities at universities
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Grady: don’t make staff pay price for UK sector ‘cannibalisation’
Union ready to ‘robustly protect education’ amid widespread job cuts, as leader changes tone ahead of re-election battle
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Venture science doctorate reorientates PhDs towards start-ups
Reimagined PhD that provides students with business training and industry contacts is attracting interest from governments and science philanthropists