With most major players making redundancies and tightening their belts, edtech has faced a difficult year, but could moves into career development save the industry?
Mahidol University is focusing on nurturing academic talent and introducing more flexible education in a bid to attract a wider pool of students, says its president Banchong Mahaisavariya
Philosopher A.?C. Grayling says scholars should not fight digitisation but should seek to protect academic freedom and avoid the creation of a gig economy
Barely half of victims report threats to police, says Finnish study, which finds perpetrators of harassment are not infrequently colleagues of those they target
Academics¡¯ reading lists are increasingly directed by algorithms. But are the recommendation services of platforms such as Google Scholar, ResearchGate and Mendeley distorting science? And might AI ultimately lead it to a disastrous echo chamber? David Matthews reports
Offloading virtual learning to third-party ¡®partners¡¯ doesn¡¯t always work for students but remains a blind spot for quality assurance, says Nora Carrol
Our innovative, empathic and cooperative approach to the pandemic needs to be used to address more deep-seated problems such as poverty and inequality, says Chantal Jouannet Valderrama