Discrimination row university secures equality accreditation NUI Galway¡¯s Athena SWAN award recognises ¡®energetic and sustained¡¯ efforts to improve Matthew Reisz 5Ô 17ÈÕ
Ruggero Freddi: from pornography to academia The former gay porn star turned academic on what lecturers can learn from the adult entertainment industry David Matthews 5ÔÂ 17ÈÕ
Bonds arms race hots up as Cambridge looks to borrow ?600 million University faces criticism for ¡®property developer¡¯ strategy in wake of Oxford¡¯s ?750 million issuing John Morgan 5Ô 17ÈÕ
UK-Ireland deal on post-Brexit student flows ¡®imperils EU links¡¯ Giving Irish undergraduates continued access to home fee status and loans could be discriminatory, experts warn Rachael Pells 5Ô 17ÈÕ
Measly recommendations will not cure HE funding¡¯s political sickness With the consultation now closed, Philip Augar¡¯s review of English post-18 education must begin the hard work of devising substantial but cost-effective proposals, says Andy Westwood Andy Westwood 5Ô 17ÈÕ
LSE launches new open-access publishing platform LSE Press becomes latest open-access platform launched by universities in response to industry shift towards online publishing methods Rachael Pells 5ÔÂ 16ÈÕ
Brexit UK ¡®risks falling to 20th in world in HE and research¡¯ UCL provost Michael Arthur warns on potential impact of immigration restrictions and exit from EU research John Morgan 5Ô 16ÈÕ
Sweden cancels Elsevier contract as open-access dispute spreads Sector¡¯s move follows similar rows in France and Germany Chris Havergal 5Ô 16ÈÕ
Hundreds of Italian academics fined for outside work Crackdown leaves professors needing to pay back almost €250,000 each on average David Matthews 5ÔÂ 16ÈÕ
Turkey suspends French studies over Koran criticism Criticism of ¡®obsolete¡¯ passages by Gallic political leaders has led to a ban on new students learning French Jack Grove 5Ô 15ÈÕ
The PhD student using Rousseauian rap to decolonise the academy Doctoral student takes performance poetry to academic conferences and university council meeting Matthew Reisz 5ÔÂ 15ÈÕ
Will university researchers create ¡®killer robots¡¯? Campaigners fear a huge increase in EU military research spending will lead to development of autonomous weapons David Matthews 5Ô 14ÈÕ
