Academic meritocracy is not academic fairness
Traditional metrics neglect the systematic barriers faced by individuals with various oppressed axes of identity, says Shan-Jan Sarah Liu
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Coach’s ‘Varsity Blues’ admissions conviction overturned
Former University of Southern California water polo coach gets new trial as federal judge cites significance of USC accepting payment from student’s family
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Admissions ‘sea change’ leaves thousands without university place
Lower tariff providers have enjoyed their best clearing in years as elite universities abandon expansionist ambitions due to fees freeze
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Wiley investigates ‘fake peer review’ at psychology journal
Research fraudbuster says publication of six papers with hallmarks of Russian paper mills indicates why periodicals must commit to more post-submission transparency
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Rise of Swedish right tipped to turn off international scholars
Lund University dean says many foreign researchers face ‘nuisance’ of an increasingly strict system
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European universities must better proclaim their success and potential
Universities were not prominent in Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union address, but it left plenty of room for them to thrive, says Jan Palmowski
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Interview with Noga Arikha
The writer and academic talks about her philosophical fascination with the mind and body, and why she wrote about her mother’s dementia
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Laurentian University wins creditor approval of repayment plan
Nearly two years after pursuit of controversial and costly insolvency process, Ontario institution sees pathway to recovery
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Dear PM, here’s a must-do list…
Sector experts offer their advice for Liz Truss and her new Cabinet on some of the biggest issues facing UK universities, from finances and R&D to culture wars and common ground
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Funders mull robot reviewers for Research Excellence Framework
Research England examining study on how AI might be used to predict quality of research outputs
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Platform helps US students sell slots on oversubscribed courses
As oversubscribed classes become painfully commonplace, students with computer skills test marketplace to bypass administrators
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The week in higher education – 15 September 2022
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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National interest test forces hundreds of grant rewrites
ARC reveals macro scale of its micro-management of funding applicants’ statements
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Life after coal: can academia revive Germany’s Rust Belt?
Backed by state government, an ambitious university-led initiative is aiming to restore the Ruhr Valley’s former industrial glory. John Morgan meets academics behind the experiment in driving...
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Researchers are wounded in academia’s gender wars
The toxic dispute over the rights of transgender people and how freely these matters should be discussed remains academia’s most divisive issue. Laura Favaro explains what she learned from speaking...