About-turns on in-person and online teaching are unhinging everyone
Covid and its financial fallout are serious, but managers must grasp the impact of their operating experiments on teaching and learning, says Binoy Kampmark
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UK aid cuts an opportunity to ‘galvanise’ African research funds
Going Global session also told that funders should pool resources to ensure longer-term stability
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Some universities ‘still too evasive’ on slavery ties
Institutions face tough choices and often fierce criticism in trying to make reparation for their tainted origins
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Living with Shakespeare, by Geoffrey Marsh
Lisa Hopkins enjoys a vivid picture of the part of London where Shakespeare once resided
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Research funding under threat from globalisation, academic warns
Polish professor warns of increasing ‘tension’ between national research funding and global science
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US fails in first Trump-era prosecution over China ties
Jury can’t agree on Tennessee associate professor Anming Hu after FBI admits pressure campaign to get him to spy
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Published corporate research ‘more reliant’ on academics
Data suggest research articles from commercial firms took a tumble in 2020 as academia boosted its output
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US colleges mull permanent travel budget cuts after Covid
Remote meetings and recruitment appear to have yielded big savings, but long-term model not yet clear
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Indian leadership vacuum raises questions over sector reforms
Critics allege that political interference has caused delays to appointments
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‘Peer-reviewed preprints’ will offer guide to quality, says eLife
Proliferation of preprints in Covid era has led non-profit publisher to post reviews from clinicians on online papers
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Levelling-up requires more from everyone – including universities
Government, enterprise and education must contribute to a multi-pronged, long-term programme to boost social mobility, says Anulika Ajufo
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International branch campus ‘top of the wish list’ for India
UK angling to put itself at front of the queue
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England and US ‘falling behind on shift to values-led education’
Former UK foreign policy adviser fears countries could lose ‘monopoly’ over accreditation for failing to inject critical thinking, curiosity, emotional intelligence and empathy into higher education
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‘World standard’ review for Australian research assessment
Rating scale for Excellence in Research for Australia to be recalibrated, with Indigenous studies incorporated as a field in its own right
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US Supreme Court delay seen as aiding Harvard on admissions
In seeking Biden perspective, nation’s top court follows process that comforts affirmative action backers