What’s in a name? Bias against female and minority applicants
Identical CVs with different names on them sent to 250 academics in experiment
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Queen’s Birthday Honours 2019: knighthood for UAL vice-chancellor
Three vice-chancellors get CBEs, as Anna Vignoles, Lee Elliot Major and Kevin Fong also among those honoured
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Stand firm against ‘free speech’ attacks, Lammy urges academics
Former universities minister renews attack on Oxford’s and Cambridge’s records on access
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Universities need firmer oversight role for student housing
Improving links between students, landlords and institutions can avoid the pitfalls of the private rental market, says Ahmed Mussa
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Skidmore warns against over-reliance on graduate earnings data
England’s universities minister says arts and humanities must not be marginalised in wake of Augar review
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Oxford to build 2,000 homes to tackle staff housing shortage
University chooses ‘private sector partner’ to deliver project
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Interdisciplinary research ‘struggles to bridge academic silos’
Study of grant funding in Australia suggests that collaboration across STEM and non-STEM divide is not the norm
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Academic uses film to raise plight of Sierra Leone diamond miners
Researcher hopes showing at United Nations will spur further action to help the most disadvantaged artisans
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Direct help for female students beyond the Indian elite
Projects for tackling gender equality in Indian higher education must be extended to the whole system, says Antara Sengupta
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Ethics education must accompany AI development, says MIT expert
Shigeru Miyagawa describes how artificial intelligence could transform teaching and assessment
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What are you reading? – 6 June 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Try the workplace before finishing degree, urges bank president
David McKay hopes AI might help universities select students with vital ‘soft skills’
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The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age, by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen
Ben Higgins enjoys a richly detailed account of the 17th-century Europe’s ‘most important centre of print’
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Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World, edited by Elizabeth Morrison with Larisa Grollemond
Sarah Peverley thrills to a lavish overview of the strange world of bestiaries
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IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon, by James W. Cortada
Book of the week: Christopher Phelps assesses a bold but flawed history of one of America’s great corporations