North America

Academic turned wrestler Dan Mathewson is just one of many educators willing to go the extra mile for scholarship and learning, says Jack Grove 

Rebekah Tromble and Patricia Rossini feared for their safety when the conservative online world turned against them last summer

Evidence from Canada highlights the scale of the challenge in preparing 21st-century workers and citizens, say Ross Finnie, Arthur Sweetman and Richard Mueller 

Liberal arts professor Dan Mathewson uses his wrestling alter ego to explore the politics of the working-class American South

Institutions struggle to cope with changing student tastes, demographic shifts and the difficulty of scaling up their model

Switching to a six-point scale in surveys eliminates perceived gap in teaching performance, study finds

Senate education committee chair pushes to apply federal aid eligibility test for private colleges across whole sector

Officers draw on expertise from around the world as they deal with protests, extremist speakers and hate crimes

Creation of fake university seen as worrying but ultimately justified by sector leaders

Papers with females as senior authors significantly more likely to take account of sex

Larry Bacow calls campuses ‘far more adaptable and durable’ than sceptics claim

US government funding $7.6 million (£5.9 million) project designed to give policymakers a quick indication of reproducibility