Racism against students ¡®taken more seriously than staff abuse¡¯ Equality and Human Rights Commission data show staff complaints take longer to investigate and are less likely to lead to redress By Anna McKie 30 October
Horizon Europe association hopefuls ¡®out of time¡¯ for 2021 start UK and Switzerland risk missing out on beginning of €100 billion (?86 billion) programme, alongside potential newcomers Australia and Canada By John Morgan 30 October
Lochlann Jain: anthropologist versus categories Gender-fluid academic seeks to challenge the ways in which we carve up the world By Matthew Reisz 30 October
Regulator puts two-thirds of providers on ¡®enhanced monitoring¡¯ England¡¯s Office for Students also says 13 providers are in ¡®representations process¡¯ after being provisionally refused loans access By John Morgan 30 October
91ÇÑ×Ó ¡®Table of Tables¡¯ 2020: Bath joins top 10 Cambridge leads combined results of three main UK university league tables for ninth year running By Ellie Bothwell 30 October
Anglia Ruskin strips Hong Kong lawmaker of honorary degree Junius Ho, who has been accused of supporting violence against protesters, has honour removed by British university By Anna McKie 29 October
Big variation across Europe in cost of publishing with ¡®big five¡¯ Analysis of publishing deals across Europe highlights different costs faced by country-level consortia By Jack Grove 29 October
Debate as French government pushes ahead on grandes ¨¦coles access As government takes interventionist stance, education experts call for deeper measures on social and institutional inequality By John Morgan 29 October
Scholars want sabbaticals and placements to fight climate change More than a thousand people sign open letter published online by Times Higher Education By Anna McKie 29 October
Universities must act swiftly and independently on climate change An open letter from academics and campaigners to sector leaders By Contributors 29 October
Part-time students ¡®left behind¡¯ by full-time ¡®grade inflation¡¯ Part-time learners in the UK much less likely to get a first or 2:1 By Simon Baker 28 October
Fund individual academics, not PIs, ¡®to stamp out sexual abuse¡¯ Gender equality expert says higher education sector must ¡®strengthen the economic independence of researchers¡¯ By Ellie Bothwell 25 October