With AAU providing teamwork and guidance, leading subset of black-serving US institutions hopes that banding together will help overcome decades of public neglect
Governor encounters some faculty and student pushback to his campaign of restrictions on curriculum and personal rights, but presidents and many academics cower in fear
Only four universities hittingEurope’s 20 per cent target, but immobile institutions say agency figures belie specific barriers and possibilities of domestic exchanges
As institutions attempt to make language more inclusive, scholars question whether changing language with negative connotations has the opposite effect
Early taste of academic precarity reported in biggest-ever survey of student-employees, although rectors’ conference questions reliability of a union-commissioned study
Decision to deter non-EU students with fees likely to ratchet up pressure in an already stretched labour market, particularly for energy and other engineering graduates
Suspect’s academic history raises pressure on universities to consider whether a heavy interest in some types of criminal behaviour warrants added screening
Rights retention agreement aims to end ‘unhelpful’ model under which universities ‘give IP to publishers and buy access to it in perpetuity’, says Manchester librarian
The expert in outbreak medicine discusses overcoming early academic challenges, the UK government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and how a chance meeting over bagpipes changed his life