Careers intelligence: helping postdocs find jobs
Improving the career prospects of postdocs is now a priority of UK universities and research funders
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Remote conference attendees are not shirkers
Caring duties and environmental responsibility do not signify a lack of commitment to scholarship, says Danielle George
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Women and ethnic minorities advance slowly in UK universities
Percentage of BAME and female professors has gone up but ‘there is still a long way to go’, Advance HE report shows
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Does performance-based funding work?
As governments around the world increasingly look to follow US states’ lead and link university funding to the recruitment, retention and employability of students, Paul Basken surveys the results of...
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Helping the OED to turn over a new fig leaf
The iconic dictionary’s misogynist descriptions of female genitalia were ripe for revision, say Emma Rees and Ellie Stedall
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What Labour’s left populism could mean for universities
Corbyn’s speech on setting ‘the people’ before ‘the privileged’ expressed a mood of anti-elitism already feeding through into education policy, writes John Morgan
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Inertia of staff can stall drive for diversity, survey shows
Poll finds university leadership supports diversity schemes but limited buy-in from rank and file
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‘Embed’ green issues into course content, says NUS rep
Even dentistry and history could incorporate environmental and sustainability learning elements
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Educators unite to listen, learn and lean into global challenges
Fighting climate change and improving the evaluation of foreign credentials will top the agenda at the 2019 EAIE conferenceÂ
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European universities give refugees a chance to learn and heal
Success stories from across Europe hold lessons for universities on removing the obstacles that block the progress of displaced students
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Encompassing all voices in international education
Students’ needs are as diverse as their backgrounds but all of them deserve to be recognised and supported, writes Julie Allen
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A sad goodbye to CEU’s soul city
Monica Jitareanu and Agnes Leyrer reflect on the fight for academic freedom as the university moves from Budapest
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UK ‘still has significant issues’ on HE participation
As latest headline figures are released, concerns are raised over groups still failing to gain access to HE
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Senate row threatens funding for US black colleges
Weeks after Trump vow to strengthen HBCUs, key Republican senator causes row by tying funding to wider HE legislation
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Failed for-profit’s students could ‘fall through cracks’, MP fears
HE institutions have offered more than 2,000 places to GSM students, but uncertainty remains over fate of others