‘First in family’ is still a useful metric of disadvantage
Without it, we could lose sight of the subtleties of the sliding scale of disadvantage and its impact on participation, says Jayne Taylor
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Dartmouth extends need-blind admissions to international students
Pledges of $90 million help Ivy League campus join small club depleted in recent years by financial stress and prioritisation of domestic applicants
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‘Major outbreaks’ of Omicron likely on UK campuses, warn experts
Delayed roll-out of booster jabs among UK’s younger population means thousands of students will be at risk of serious infection, say researchers
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‘Too ugly to teach’: universities ‘must end’ anonymous evaluation
Continuing to offer anonymous surveys just invites abuse of lecturers, say Australian researchers
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US universities mull adopting New York college’s four-day week
While its educational niche may confer unique advantage, D’Youville shows it can maintain student services with one less day
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What use is the immutable syllabus in a tumultuous age?
Perhaps it is only by recasting an agreement as an adventure that professors can respond to the urgency of our times, says Robert Zaretsky
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Penn chooses Virginia’s Elizabeth Magill as president
Provost at Virginia expected to take office in July, replacing Gutmann after high-profile 18-year tenure
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Union calls global academic boycott of Goldsmiths in jobs row
Scholars asked to refuse to speak or help with examinations at university where 46 jobs remain at risk
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Jonathan Van-Tam returns to Nottingham as pro vice-chancellor
England deputy chief medical officer, on secondment since 2017 from the university, has been one of most high-profile faces of country’s pandemic response
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Conflict Graffiti, by John Lennon
Stefano Bloch applauds a brilliant account of what street art can reveal about people, places and politics
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Universities shun school mentoring ‘to guard global reputation’
Northern Powerhouse Partnership appeals to universities to follow Sheffield Hallam’s lead on pandemic mentoring for secondary pupils
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Stanford Marriage Pact finds students keen on romantic assistance
Isolation and anxieties of Covid and Trump eras drive campus matchmaking model, and possible reinforcement of elite
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Constitutional case ‘puts brakes on more anti-precarity laws’
Search for wider solutions must continue while Berlin’s postdoc contract law faces judicial scrutiny, experts say
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The liberal arts can counteract polarisation – but there are caveats
Higher education must double down on the liberal education values of interdisciplinarity, experiential learning and critical thinking, says Eric Skipper
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UCU calls for vulnerable to work remotely as Omicron surges
Union updates guidance to branches that also calls for ‘high quality’ face masks to be made available to staff