Tackling racism has to be a priority for universities, forum told Universities must put as much effort into equality and diversity strategies as they do into other areas, say leading academics By Anna McKie 20 June
Goldsmiths staff ‘at breaking point’ on job losses and racism claims Casual staff start marking boycott over failure to extend contracts, move seen as having outsized impact on BAME and female academics By Anna McKie 19 June
Gender and ethnicity graduate gap outlined by new UK data First release of Graduate Outcomes, which looks at what people are doing 15 months after leaving university, shows stark differences for some groups By Simon Baker 19 June
UK university applicants rapidly needed certainty. They didn’t get it Fee caps should be dependent on what universities can actually provide in a pandemic, says prospective fresher Nélson Fernandes Serrão By Nélson Fernandes Serrão 19 June
Essay mills ‘targeting students’ as pandemic crisis shifts HE online New guidance from UK’s QAA says shift to online learning has left students vulnerable to contract cheating services By Anna McKie 18 June
Anger over Birmingham’s crisis switch to ‘generic mega-modules’ Institution’s efforts to make teaching more coronavirus-resilient could mean research-led teaching is ‘jettisoned’, critics claim By Jack Grove 18 June
Oxford’s Oriel College votes to remove Rhodes statue Rhodes Must Fall campaigners say their ‘optimism is cautious’ after college announcement By Anna McKie 18 June
The EU’s coronavirus recovery plan must harness frontier science Extra funds for science are welcome, but tipping the balance towards challenge-led research must not become the new normal, warns Jan Palmowski By Jan Palmowski 18 June
European universities should cooperate on online teaching With Covid-19 imposing huge strain on universities’ digital course development, collaboration is the obvious solution, says Alexandra Mihai By Alexandra Mihai 18 June
Universities minister: removing Rhodes statue would be ‘short-sighted’ Michelle Donelan says that we ‘cannot rewrite our history’, while also addressing student number control controversies By Anna McKie 17 June
Cut UK academic publishing fees by 25 per cent, urge universities ‘Unprecedented’ financial pressure on university budgets should result in reduced subscription charges, says UUK-Jisc group By Jack Grove 17 June
Pandemic response shines spotlight on coding in science Debate about computer programs underlying epidemiological modelling leads to wider calls for more openness By Simon Baker 16 June