North America

Institutions accused of only ‘wanting to be about Shakespeare’ in wake of proposal to merge US Education and Labor departments

Nobel laureates call for early career researchers to be freed from ‘publish or perish’ mentality

President of Canada’s York University warns against binary divide between regional and global universities

List of universities closing down predicted to grow rapidly

Academic tweets about how he stepped in to prevent colleague being attacked

Cross-border tensions accelerate trans-Pacific pivot

But international scholars are less satisfied than domestic peers with the influence they have in the workplace, finds study

The Oakland Promise, like a number of local schemes in the US, aims to be a ‘cradle to career’ programme moving more of the city’s children into higher education. John Morgan visits California to assess it

Calls for additional funding to help colleges police controversial events

Santa Ono’s social media activity raises questions about when a tweet is an official university statement

Populist Doug Ford wants to expand mandate of province’s higher education regulator

Up to 90 per cent of reviewers unable to guess authors of papers in experiment