The week in higher education – 21 November 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Universities urged to radically cut flights to help climate
Academics suggest ambitious targets for reducing air travel and introducing regional hubs for conferences
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21 November 2019 digital edition
Questions of scale: campuses worldwide are ballooning, but is bigger always better?
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Careers intelligence: how postdocs can find jobs outside the academy
Most postdoctoral researchers will end up working outside universities – postdoc adviser Emma Williams has some advice on the tricky business of applying for jobs in different sectors
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Ten rules for succeeding in academia through upward toxicity
Universities preach meritocracy but, in reality, bend over backwards to protect toxic personalities, says Irina Dumitrescu
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White supremacist manifesto ‘airdropped’ to US students’ phones
New York governor joins criticism of handling of racist incidents at Syracuse
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Third of international students in US ‘discriminated against’
Survey released as new data show the majority of US universities have seen a decline in new international students this year
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Lib Dems seek to sidestep fees trauma with HE review pledge
Party would use review to consider ‘any necessary reforms’, having previously indicated it may favour a graduate tax
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PolyU campus ‘in complete disarray’ as siege nears endgame
Hong Kong university leaders plead with barricaded staff and students to leave
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US senators threaten campuses over foreign espionage fears
Lawmakers fret over weak response to China, but can’t say what they would do better
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Lack of awareness ‘major barrier’ to improving campus diversity
Study from European University Association also finds that few universities have targets to improve the ethnic and socio-economic diversity of staff
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Italian academic turned minister signals shift away from metrics
Lorenzo Fioramonti wants to ‘put his ideas to the test’ and end the country’s brain drain
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Leaked document prompts fears of big publisher ‘lock in’
Elsevier could sell Dutch universities a bundle of journal access rights and software, raising concerns that universities could become stuck in one publisher’s software ecosystem
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Murdoch ‘wrong to blame’ whistleblower for visa downgrade
Ministry says change to score – a key plank of claim against Gerd Schröder-Turk – cannot be affected by media coverage
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Where is higher education in Chile’s dignity revolution?
Fees reform has not quelled popular anger over exploitation, but academics can play a key role in constitutional reform, says Robert Funk