Radical Irish gender plan ‘could be model for Europe’
Frustration with ‘snail’s pace’ progress across continent leads Irish government to back financial sanctions against universities that miss targets
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Campuses urged to fill gaps in ‘white, male’ institutional pasts
Conference hears how the biases of historic collections need to be addressed
Canadian institute loses boss in showdown over high-risk science
University of British Columbia professor quits leadership of Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies in protest at funding reforms
Plan S: three-year transition period for hybrid journals
Task force affirms support for green open access and says that poorer researchers should not miss out
Journal shares peer reviews of rejected papers with rival titles
BMC Biology’s ‘portable peer review’ policy aims to save editors and researchers time and effort, but academics question whether authors will want to share details of past rejections
Democrats unsure how far they can push higher education reform
With a renewed share of power, US Democrats promising help for universities and students confront Republicans and themselves
Credit transfer key to Trump drive to help for-profit colleges
US administration portrays campaign as matter of fairness and equity
Publishers choose between self-censorship in China and import ban
Cambridge University Press is latest firm to reveal that some of its titles have been blocked by the state
Login Subscribe French female recruitment quotas backfire after male ‘backlash’
Having more women on appointment committees has dramatically cut the number of female academics getting hired, according to analysis
Online university courses for the masses fail to materialise
In five years, Moocs go from dream of universal education to limited service for higher-end customers
