Why are there so few female vice-chancellors?

By Jack Grove. How long before search committees stop assuming that the right man for the top university job is a man?
Interview panels often offer the view that female candidates are ‘not quite ready’, but the same comments are not made about men.
Jack Grove reports on critiques of the senior management boys’ club.
What does a university’s art collection say about the institution? Dame Julia King, vice-chancellor of Aston University, believes that the pictures found in corridors and common rooms reveal much about the male-dominated culture of Britain’s universities. More...