The week in higher education – 29 April 2021
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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US colleges’ billion-dollar question: is philanthropy worth the cost?
With wealth and donations becoming concentrated in ever fewer, ever more influential hands, and with some institutions languishing while the elite flourish, Paul Basken asks whether it is time for...
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Freedom of speech really is at risk – but beware of top-down solutions
With some academics being willing to oust those they disagree with, self-censorship is a huge, unacknowledged problem, says James Tooley
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29 April 2021 digital edition
Influential dollars: is philanthropy worth the cost to HE?
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‘Forceful response’ buoys Australian universities’ viability: S&P
Ratings agency credits lay-offs, casualisation and course cuts for Australian universities’ ‘relatively robust’ position
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US eases visa rules for students from top supplier nations
Policy shift nevertheless leaves major backlogs and processing limits
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University presidents make global social responsibility pledge
Institutions band together at Tsinghua event to address climate change and other crises
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Mobile students ‘not prepared to pay full quarantine costs’
Survey finds that aspiring overseas students are still looking for promise of face-to-face teaching
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‘Unprecedented’ UK aid cuts have ‘enormous’ impact on researchers
Research council head calls for ‘long-term vision’ to end cross-border funding ‘volatility’
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Pandemic forces France to contemplate UK-style student loans
Lockdowns decimated the part-time jobs on which French students relied, and debate is now under way over how to fix ‘broken’ system of state support
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Overseas research cuts threaten UK’s ‘levelling up’ agenda
Imminent research cuts linked to GCRF reductions could fall heavily on UK’s regions, figures show
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Oxford doctoral system criticised as Wolf thesis finally released
Lack of transparency in examinations under spotlight as US feminist’s dissertation finally lodged in Bodleian
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Is the benefit of the REF really worth the cost?
Simpler options are imperfect but perhaps no more so than the panels’ unavoidably cursory ‘peer review’ of submissions, says Dorothy Bishop
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International students focus on open borders, not Covid caseloads
Covid safety almost a liability as Australia and New Zealand relegated as ‘spectators’ rather than participants in international education recovery
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Tory MPs urge minister to intervene over campus ‘antisemitism’
Education Committee chair says Bristol’s handling of David Miller case has created ‘hostile environment’ for Jewish students akin to ‘1930s Germany’