Higher Education Reform

Risks of Institutional Capture in University Decolonization, And How to Create Meaningful Change
Higher Education Reform
August 20, 2020

Risks of Institutional Capture in University Decolonization, And How to Create Meaningful Change

Read Now
Beyond Illness: COVID-19 is Hurting Women In Academia
Higher Education Reform
August 13, 2020

Beyond Illness: COVID-19 is Hurting Women In Academia

Read Now
Thinking of Taking an Academic Job in China? Better Plan Carefully
Infrastructure
August 12, 2020

Thinking of Taking an Academic Job in China? Better Plan Carefully

Read Now
Thinking of Taking an Academic Job in China? Better Think Twice
Higher Education Reform
July 30, 2020

Thinking of Taking an Academic Job in China? Better Think Twice

Read Now
Rodney Coates Outlines A 12-Step Program for Decolonizing Academe

Rodney Coates Outlines A 12-Step Program for Decolonizing Academe

Public sociologist Rodney Coates, a professor of critical race and ethnic studies and of global and intercultural studies at Miami University of Ohio, and author the SAGE Publishing text The Matrix of Race, will present a free webinar on “A 12-Step Program for Decolonizing the University” on July 30. While the webinar filled up with a few hours of being announced, a recording will appear here on Social Science Space. In the meantime, here is the 12-step program Coates first presented on social media this spring.

Read Now
Virtual Festival of Higher Education Looks at British HE post-COVID

Virtual Festival of Higher Education Looks at British HE post-COVID

The University of Buckingham, in association with the Higher Education Policy Institute, in bringing the fifth festival of Higher Education online with […]

Read Now
Why We Need Experiential Scholarship to Better Understand Racial Inequality

Why We Need Experiential Scholarship to Better Understand Racial Inequality

It wasn’t until I started doing a degree in gender studies that I was told it was OK to use the first […]

Read Now
How Will COVID-19 Affect the International Reserve Army of Academic Labor?

How Will COVID-19 Affect the International Reserve Army of Academic Labor?

Around the world, face-to-face teaching has ceased, campuses are closed and empty, a sudden shift to pervasive online has generated little enthusiasm among students, travel restrictions have drained the lucrative flow of international students to a trickle, and many universities have reported significant financial problems. So what do I do with my freshly minted PhD?

Read Now
John Ioannidis Responds to His COVID-19 Critics

John Ioannidis Responds to His COVID-19 Critics

“We felt it’s important to dissociate the specific paper from making policy recommendations, because this is taking things to a different level. Now, if you ask my opinion about whether it does have policy recommendations or implications separate from the study, I think what it says is that this is a very common infection, and very often it is asymptomatic, so it goes below the radar screen. “

Read Now
Moving Online Huge Challenge for Kenya’s Higher Education

Moving Online Huge Challenge for Kenya’s Higher Education

For over a decade Kenya has made moves towards e-learning for university students. This is all the more important now, as universities have closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But questions remain as to how effective it is. Jackline Nyerere shares her insights.

Read Now
Higher Education During COVID and Thereafter: Considerations for India and the Developing World

Higher Education During COVID and Thereafter: Considerations for India and the Developing World

The current crisis we are encountering, as a result of COVID-19, should enable the appropriation of the current system of delivery and assessment in higher education. Technology integration, undeniably, remains essential for the modernization of education in India and other countries in the developing world. At the same time, such efforts should take into consideration of socio-economic factors, including region-specific issues and student diversity.

Read Now
Mark Carrigan Asks If We’re All Digital Scholars Now?

Mark Carrigan Asks If We’re All Digital Scholars Now?

The lockdown prompted by the COVID pandemic presents opportunities to rethink how academic practices take place in virtual environments. Mark Carrigan argues that if adopted uncritically, they could exacerbate existing inequalities in the use of digital technologies and open up new areas of academic life to surveillance and control.

Read Now

Subscribe to our mailing list

Get the latest news from the social and behavioral science community delivered straight to your inbox.