12 March 2020 digital edition
Code blue: Will mass online teaching outlive the coronavirus?
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Lecturers need to stop trying to micromanage their students’ lives
Douglas Dowland considers the damage inflicted by the control freaks of the academy – and some of the ways he has found to keep his own inner control freak in line
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Pirate universities have stolen lecturers’ performers’ rights
Universities are wrong to assume that they are entitled to use recordings of lecturers however they please, says Robert Cluley
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The week in higher education – 12 March 2020
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Coronavirus: more European countries shutter university systems
Poland, Hungary and Ukraine follow Italy and Greece in ordering temporary closures
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Budget 2020: UK research spending to hit £22 billion by 2024-25
Chancellor goes beyond Tory manifesto pledges and signals immediate £400 million boost for 2020-21
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Shift to online education spreads in US, covering entire states
Orders to vacate campuses raise fears for low-income and international students as well as resigned acceptance
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DfE keeps EU student paper secret ‘to avoid affecting’ trade talks
Refusal to release report on post-Brexit demand raises question of whether fee and loan arrangements will feature in UK-EU trade talks
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Departing professor hits out at ‘heavy-handed’ email termination
Historian says he has been unable access notes and part-written books, but Swansea says it has been providing files
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Time to re-examine the Humboldtian model, says Schmidt
Funding designed around a ‘false premise’ that every university is research-intensive, says Nobel laureate
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Conference cancellations could have ‘big impact’ on research
Effects could be particularly significant for junior researchers, who rely heavily on conferences for early career progression, says scholar
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Brexit puts greater spotlight on EU funding efficiency drive
Figures in recent EUA report suggest auditing of EU-funded projects can cost universities five times more than reviews of national grants
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Who is blind to the horror of N-words?
Robert Zaretsky is troubled by his students’ refusal to see any nuance in a historical text that contains racial slurs
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Coronavirus: first Australian campus shutdown
Education disruptions becoming the ‘norm’ as staff, students and visitors test positive