The week in higher education – 1 August 2024
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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What now for DEI in the US?
Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives have come under sustained attack from the political right, resulting in the shuttering of DEI offices and curbs on teaching and research. With affirmative...
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As a victim of the Tories’ culture war, I hope Starmer will impose a ceasefire
My role in the National Trust’s slavery report led to so many threats that I couldn’t walk anywhere unaccompanied, says Corinne Fowler
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1 August 2024 digital edition
Feeling the squeeze: Can diversity, equity and inclusion withstand the right’s attacks?
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Laura Favaro: City settles gender studies critic’s tribunal claim
Academic who claims she was forced out of university for exposing silencing of gender-critical feminists says she is ‘extremely pleased’ by settlement
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Scottish university sells New York campus to business school
IE University takes over Glasgow Caledonian outpost that was branded a ‘white elephant’
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Regulator nudges campuses towards staff-student relationship ban
Office for Students drops plans to require universities to keep a register of personal relationships between staff and learners, but stops short of mandating bans
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Goldsmiths strike next term upgraded to continuous walkout
Union escalates industrial action in bid to block redundancies at crisis-hit institution
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Russian research ‘increasingly isolated’ amid Ukraine war
More scientists only producing domestic work after collapse in collaborations with US and Europe and Chinese links remaining static
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‘Case can be made’ for differential fees, poll indicates
Larger proportion of people back charging more for certain courses when given context, Policy Institute at King’s College London finds
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Deakin’s landmark India campus seeks to help tackle unemployment
Industry links seen as key for one of the first foreign universities to set up a base in India
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For more civil campuses, involve students in running them
Our experiences on a remote Massachusetts island showed us how liberal arts education could be, say Nathan Badger and Maya Rosen
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Manchester rebuked over ‘unfair’ student contracts
Clauses that gave institution ‘broad discretion’ to increase fees mid-course and avoid liability during strikes among those highlighted by Office for Students
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Northampton campus and timetable moves spark quality probe rebuke
Office for Students investigation finds computing courses are failing to meet learners’ needs, but university claims it is based on old data