Athena SWAN funding link under scrutiny in discrimination row
Female lecturers allegedly under pressure to settle legal action after university’s equality charter application rejected
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Apple CEO Tim Cook launches Oxford hub for entrepreneurship
A new entrepreneurial hub for University of Oxford students will help to ensure that the next Steve Jobs or Sheryl Sandberg will come from the UK, its vice-chancellor predicts.
Central European University faces further year of ‘legal limbo’
The threatened Central European University may face a further year of uncertainty over its future in Hungary, after the government extended the compliance deadline for its higher education act to 2019.
Upgrading all borderline students’ degree classes ‘unacceptable’
UK universities must ensure that their policies on borderline scores do not in effect lower the thresholds for degree classifications, sector bodies say.
‘Lean in’ to public advocacy in Trump era, US scientists told
US university leaders and individual researchers must “lean in” to their responsibilities as public advocates for evidence-based policymaking under the presidency of Donald Trump, according to a former White House staffer.
Scientists bust myth that academic productivity declines with age
It is often thought that a young academic in any field publishes early and often, peaks after about five years, secures a permanent position and then gradually grows less productive until retirement.
Is China’s HE strategy too narrow to dominate the world rankings?
An announcement last month by the Chinese government about which institutions will be included in its latest funding initiative to create “world-class” universities may have pricked up the ears of the elite Western institutions that dominate higher education rankings.
‘Progressive stacking’ teaching technique sparks debate
Anyone who has ever taught a university class knows some students say more than others.
US university leaders who shut out speakers ‘inflaming problem’
US university presidents who bar “controversial” speakers from campus are “inflaming the problem”, according to the leader of an institution that hosted alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.
UK considers offering student loan access in foreign trade deals
The UK government is exploring the idea of offering access to public student loans for overseas students studying at British universities, as part of potential post-Brexit trade deals with foreign governments.
