Universities’ black and minority ethnic staff still encounter ‘significant disadvantage’
Efforts to promote race equality in higher education have petered out and had "little impact", a conference has heard.
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Efforts to promote race equality in higher education have petered out and had "little impact", a conference has heard.
Concerned that wild populations of marine species are becoming depleted, researchers are trying to crack the code of how to raise them in captivity.
Latin American leaders, weary of the drug war, are calling for an important discussion on drug legalization. The U.S. should not turn away.
Threats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style 'walled gardens'
Egypt's election commission disqualified 10 presidential hopefuls, including the country's ex-spy chief and key Islamists, from running in a surprise decision that threatened to upend the already tumultuous race.
Chickens will be farmed at 20,000 birds a hectare - 13 times more crowded than the current Australian code - and still qualify as ''free range'' under changes to egg industry standards to be introduced this month.
The president of London Metropolitan University students’ union has called for the vice-chancellor to apologise after he suggested the sale of alcohol should be banned from parts of the campus because some Muslim students believed drinking was “immoral”.
Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies – and using some of the savings to help the poorest cope with rising energy prices – could curb climate change and energy waste, cut government costs and reduce social inequality, a report on sustainable development suggests.
For the last decade USC has enrolled the largest number of international students of any college in the country: 8,615 last year. The Los Angeles university worked hard to achieve that — recruiting students from China, India and South Korea, among 100 countries in all, and providing services for the foreign students once they get here.
A new study has found that some plant systems may thrive initially in a warmer climate but then deteriorate over the long term.