Boosting African doctoral capacity needs national partnerships
Meeting the continent’s need for more doctoral graduates is hampered by a lack of resources and qualified supervisors, says Teklu Abate Bekele
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Record Australian margins ‘prove need for government attention’
Unless Canberra provides stable funding, universities are doomed to boom-bust cycles, unionist warns
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Anger over quarantine fees for Shanghai students heading home
Cost of seven-day hotel quarantine equivalent to a whole term’s tuition fee to some students
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Degree courses at further education colleges will drive UK levelling up
By helping colleges deliver degrees, the OU will be fulfilling its founding mission, say Nadhim Zahawi, Tim Blackman and David Hughes
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UK astronomers fear bit-part role in European space mission
Cambridge scientist who forfeited EU research funding says industry will suffer badly from loss of influence
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Australian university extends its embrace of flood-ravaged town
‘We are a designated evacuation centre. Bit by bit, we started coming to longer-term arrangements’
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New French minister urged to look beyond research elite
Former Paris-Saclay president Sylvie Retailleau must prove she can be a minister for all universities, say sector leaders
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Let’s not toss away our hard-won digital teaching expertise
Disabled, disadvantaged, introverted and international students may all appreciate ongoing online options, says Robert Phillips
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Disadvantaged students ‘six times as expensive to teach’
Eye-popping results from Australian study warrant complete overhaul of how teaching subsidies are distributed, researchers say
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US students make gains in lawsuits over online teaching
From hundreds of complaints over virtual teaching, a pattern of deference to institutions, except for those that had long discounted the format
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Minerva comes of age, hoping it’s not too late
New university finds early success with online teaching in local environments worldwide, but fears higher education may already have lost the public
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Peer reviewing is becoming more cavalier, self-serving and ignorant
The professionalism and collegiality with which editors used to respond to complaints has all but disappeared, says Harvey GraffÂ
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Difficult questions as Harvard counts long-held human remains
University’s near-complete accounting reported to find 7,000 Native Americans and 19 victims of slavery among bodies used in often-racist research
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Queen’s Birthday Honours: damehood for outgoing Oxford v-c
St Andrews principal and former UCL president also honoured alongside retiring Research England head
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Rebuild sector around cooperation, not competition, say leaders
Instead of creating ‘strong leaders’, institutions should aim to educate students to be ‘someone everyone wants to work with’, academics told