A new study from researchers at PENKUP Research Institute argues that where you work matters far less than how much freedom you feel you have while doing it The debate over hybrid working has dominated business pages for years. How many days should employees spend in...

The study argues that the persistent lack of ethnic minority leaders in UK and Canadian educational institutions is not the result of weak pipelines or individual shortcomings, but of structural and cultural systems that continue to privilege whiteness as the default marker of leadership. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, the authors show how recruitment criteria, promotion practices, informal networks, and unspoken norms of “leadership legitimacy” reproduce exclusion even in institutions that publicly endorse equality, diversity, and inclusion. By comparing two countries often seen as multicultural leaders, the paper highlights how deeply embedded these barriers are and calls for a shift from representational diversity metrics toward genuine structural transformation in how leadership is defined, developed, and conferred.

A new international study warns that without urgent reform, higher education systems will repeat the same failures when the next disruption hits Five years on from the moment COVID-19 brought university campuses around the world to a standstill, a new research paper...

New research reveals why flexibility alone doesn't guarantee employee satisfaction Working from home has transformed from an occasional perk to a defining feature of the information technology sector, but new research reveals that simply allowing remote work doesn't...