Harvard strike move shows determination of teaching assistants Student labour movement feels momentum despite Trump administration pressure By Paul Basken 21 October
Southern US university shows restraint after book burning Despite student clamour, Georgia Southern leaders answer alarming action with calm and context By Paul Basken 19 October
Workplace experience key to getting liberal arts graduates jobs Canadian cooperative approach seen as a model for finding students looking to start careers in technology sector By Paul Basken 18 October
Biden plan affirms Democrat unanimity on US college costs Experts sceptical of free-college methods, but welcome party-wide commitment for 2020 poll By Paul Basken 17 October
Megajournal editors ‘swapped acceptances for citations’ Analysis of highly prolific Plos One editors finds evidence for ‘editor-author backscratching’ By Jack Grove 16 October
California doubles bet on century bonds in $2 billion move Hundred-year loans offer US universities big benefits, some risk, and queasiness By Paul Basken 16 October
One in five female students on top US campuses sexually assaulted Rate four times higher among women than men, and rising overall since initial 2015 survey By Paul Basken 15 October
French poverty scholar is second female Nobel economics laureate Esther Duflo – the youngest ever economics Nobelist – shares 2019 prize with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer By Jack Grove 14 October
California campuses to make abortion pills available Despite administrator concern, law enacted as matter of gender and financial fairness By Paul Basken 14 October
Citation diversity tied to medical research success US NIH finding raises hopes of focused funding, but concerns of bandwagon outlook By Paul Basken 11 October
Bad Religion’s Greg Graffin: fellow musicians call me ‘college boy’ The Bad Religion frontman and Cornell University lecturer on combining songwriting and academic research and how universities should respond to far-right extremism By Ellie Bothwell 10 October
Dartmouth’s ‘cluster hiring’ move ‘key to attracting top scholars’ President says Ivy League institution is reaping reward of looking past academic silos and selecting staff on ability to tackle external challenge By Ellie Bothwell 10 October
