Harnessing the power of technology can help vulnerable students
Having dropped out of university because of loneliness and depression, Hayley Mulenda argues that effective use of data analytics and greater diversity of academic staff are crucial
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Indigenous knowledge ‘misunderstood and underfunded’
Study calls for more equitable partnerships between scientists and Indigenous knowledge holders
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Australian universities ‘better off if legislation fails’
Fee and subsidy overhaul will not solve anything, policy guru says, as government reforms go under the microscope
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Let knowledge flow freely
The global nature of higher education is its greatest strength, which is now under threat from the effects of Covid, nationalism and industry competition
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US asks universities not to send Covid-infected students home
Number of virus cases on campuses continues to spiral
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The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), by Katie Mack
Cait MacPhee enjoys a tour of the disaster scenarios that put even a pandemic into perspective
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Beefed-up TEF and new regulator powers ‘mulled by ministers’
As DfE prioritises drive against ‘low-value’ courses, TEF said to be viewed as inadequate while OfS may be reset under new chair
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Covid-19 researchers live and work in lonely bubbles
‘I can’t afford to self-isolate for two weeks’: academics working on pandemic research disclose the ways they are protecting their personal health
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UK campuses ‘particularly vulnerable’ to student mobility drop
Latest World University Rankings suggest a number of top 200 universities are over-reliant on international student revenues
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The week in higher education – 3 September 2020
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Lack of study space and poor connections hinder online learning
Office for Students says survey shows some students in England are being left behind by ‘digital poverty’
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‘An intellect stripped down to its essentials’
Blindness gave the late politics professor Roger Williams a unique ability to focus on the structure and coherence of what was being said to him. And though his interrogations could be exacting,...
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Interview with Caleb McDaniel
The Pulitzer winner on the resilience of slavery and how universities’ fearless truth-seeking is their best tool to tackle their own troubled pasts
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Mark Ormrod, 1957-2020
Tributes paid to ‘a towering figure in the field of medieval studies’
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Is academic guidance sustainable at distance?
Seeking out students for personal tutoring in socially distanced times is the labour-intensive but necessary task that may defeat universities, says Michael Wynn-Williams