The week in higher education – 3 March 2022
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Academia uncoupled as isolated Russia moves into China bloc
But one expert suggests closer ties with Beijing may not be as straightforward as Kremlin thinks
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My worst teaching moment – and what it taught me
All academics have had that anxiety dream about standing up to give a lecture, only to realise they have forgotten to prepare anything – or to put on any clothes. But real teaching failures are...
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Augar response makes balanced tweaks to England’s funding system
Frozen fee levels must rise eventually, but universities need to deliver efficiency gains through hybrid learning, says David Willetts
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3 March 2022 digital edition
Epic fails:Â what academics have learned from their biggest teaching disasters
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The government is using inflation to take back control of English HE
The Augar response highlights ministers’ hopes that rising costs will make certain courses economically unviable, says Alexis Brown
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Domestic demand shows signs of softening in Australia
Universities brace as hot labour market beckons locals who kept them afloat through Covid
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Researchers spot ‘massive retrospective change’ on student loans
Threshold indexing change, not mentioned by DfE in media briefings, brings lifetime hit of up to £19,000 for ‘lower middling earners’ who took out loans after 2012
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Life still trumps work for female researchers in the Middle East
The unrelenting social pressure to take on all domestic duties leaves women little time for professional advancement, says Sabrin Ramadhan
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More Russian ties cut as Europe offers help to Ukraine colleagues
Symbolic and practical support has come from across Europe, but views differ on whether continued Russian cooperation could end or abet the conflict
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Volunteers scramble to help overseas students fleeing Ukraine
Amid chaos, non-profit groups work to help an estimated 20,000 Indians leave war zone
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Uncertainty on wait lists as US colleges face enrolment disruption
Selective institutions again face backsliding in perennial challenge of guessing how many admitted students will accept
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Hungarian election brings little hope for academics
Orbán administration’s illiberal intrusions into institutional governance will be ‘difficult’ to reverse, say scholarsÂ
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Fee freeze ‘risks exacerbating’ shift away from UK undergraduates
Warning comes as data on English student numbers suggest institutions growing international master’s cohorts
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Top Chinese graduates opt to stay at home for postgraduate study
Proportion of leavers going overseas for further courses on a downward trend that predates pandemic