‘Perfect 10’ wariness reveals gender bias in student evaluations Switching to a six-point scale in surveys eliminates perceived gap in teaching performance, study finds Jack Grove 2月 12日
Republicans push to rate universities on graduate earnings Senate education committee chair pushes to apply federal aid eligibility test for private colleges across whole sector Paul Basken 2月 11日
US campus police up their game in response to mounting threats Officers draw on expertise from around the world as they deal with protests, extremist speakers and hate crimes Jon Marcus 2月 11日
US universities sympathise with controversial student visa sting Creation of fake university seen as worrying but ultimately justified by sector leaders Paul Basken 2月 9日
Diversity concerns as biomedical papers ‘ignore sex as variable’ Papers with females as senior authors significantly more likely to take account of sex Rachael Pells 2月 9日
Harvard president rejects predictions of mass university closures Larry Bacow calls campuses ‘far more adaptable and durable’ than sceptics claim Paul Basken 2月 8日
Bid to use AI to predict research reproducibility launched US government funding $7.6 million (?5.9 million) project designed to give policymakers a quick indication of reproducibility Rachael Pells 2月 8日
US postgraduate courses lose foreign students for second year Foreign applications down 4 per cent, enrolments drop 1 per cent in ‘troubling’ sign for graduate schools Paul Basken 2月 7日
Academic family trees: valuable insights or vanity project? Researchers who trace links between academic supervisors and students claim that it can help to shed light on the nature of mentoring Robert Hart 2月 7日
Professor suspended for using N-word in class discussion The case of Phillip Adamo, an academic at Augsburg University, provokes debate about the taboos of discussing literature Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed 2月 7日
MIT opts to keep Saudi partnerships after post-Khashoggi review MIT expresses ‘deep sense of revulsion’ over Khashoggi killing but won’t override faculty choice of partners Paul Basken 2月 6日
Chicago president feels the chill as immigration curbs bite Automatic green cards for international PhD graduates at US universities could restore America’s ‘competitive advantage’, says Robert Zimmer Jack Grove 2月 6日
