We will only learn Covid lessons if blame culture of inquiries is rooted out
Social scientists have an opportunity to advise on reorienting the traditional public inquiry towards focused lesson-learning, says Matthew Flinders
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Quarantine? Depends on students’ citizenship, says Australia
Students flying in from Singapore won’t need to isolate, as long as they’re from Singapore
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European university alliances must not become a political plaything
The European Commission must resist the temptation to overload nascent university alliances with its own strategic priorities, says Jan Palmowski
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Analysts ‘cautiously optimistic’ on Chinese students’ return
UK institutions gaining from Australia’s strict Covid-19 border controls, experts say
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Archaeology in Israel: Zionism, politics and disappointing finds
Graphic novel poses some searching questions about how we interpret the often banal objects that get dug up
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Malaysian universities in dire need of reform, say scholars
Researchers blast higher education system for valuing metrics and loyalty to higher-ups over intellectual rigour
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Major publisher embraces ‘researcher journey’ journal format
Journals that are part of Cambridge University Press’ Research Directions ‘will better reflect the research lifecycle’ and interdisciplinary research
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South Australia drops quarantine requirement for foreign students
State becomes first jurisdiction to step back from its pilot scheme, after being first to get one approved
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Rationality, by Steven Pinker
Martin Cohen takes issue with a polemic that seems to skate over some of the deeper dimensions of logic and scientific method
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Lack of student success measures is holding back higher education
From undergraduate engagement to teacher training and graduate salaries, universities lack statistics needed to track student outcomes, say Hamish Coates and Xi Gao
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Reduction in choice ‘would hit disadvantaged students hardest’
Report for MPs shows poorer students make decisions based on living costs and are more likely to live locally
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Institute of Physics puts skills at centre of latest reinvention
Physics’ royal society aims to be more relevant than ever with focus on skills, education and business
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Climate Impact Forum: embed sustainability in university teaching to save the planet
Changing university curricula to reflect challenges of climate change will inspire students, not lofty environmental commitments, says Daniella Tilbury
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Cash, not borders, ‘major barrier to overseas study’
With their home economies bouncing back and students keen to travel, countries face vaccination validation as next obstacle
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Editorial favouritism unpopular with China’s junior scholars
But study challenges idea that papers by colleagues of editors are of a lower quality