Universities ‘do little to help PhDs who want to leave academia’ More than half of PhD graduates find jobs outside universities after graduating but students complain programmes are still only set up to help create new professors By Johanna Alonso for Inside Higher Ed 4 February
US universities offer ‘integrated majors’ to boost enrolments Combining subjects with computer science seen as way of increasing the attractiveness of courses not linked to jobs By Johanna Alonso for Inside Higher Ed 15 January
Deans’ lists of high-performing students fall out of fashion Cornell and Penn among the Ivy League institutions to stop tradition to reduce stress over grades By Johanna Alonso for Inside Higher Ed 21 February
College counsellors increasingly seeing traumatised students Support services in US forced to adapt due to rise in students reporting childhood emotional abuse and sexual violence By Johanna Alonso for Inside Higher Ed 7 February