The best student experience possible right now is online
Done properly, teaching in front of a webcam is more effective than teaching from behind a visor, says an anonymous academic
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The engineer whose adversity has spawned acoustic wizardry
Sydney PhD graduate reflects on how his surprise disability gave rise to an academic career and better prospects for fellow sufferers
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US fraternities must be required to disavow their racist roots
An honest national conversation about the murky origins of Greek life is a prerequisite for a better future, says Taulby Edmondson
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Lockdown ‘hit female academics’ productivity and emotional state’
Survey from Spain suggests that as schools closed, women were less able to catch up on work and dramatically dropped hours spent on article writing and submitting
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Indian universities must defend their students against political oppression
The BJP’s permeation of every aspect of higher education will hamper India’s ambitions to be a world leader in research and innovation, says Aditya Sharma
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Oxford physicist who was forced to retire reinstated by tribunal
University is also told to pay Paul Ewart almost £30,000 in compensation
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Japanese scholars fear further assaults on academic freedom
Yoshihide Suga’s rejection of appointees to the Science Council of Japan may be opening shot in ‘symbolic war’, says professor
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Quarter of citations in top journals ‘wrong or misleading’
Forensic analysis of citations within leading scientific periodicals reveals alarming lack of rigour in academic referencing
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Change male academics to create gender parity, universities told
Institutions have long framed gender inequality as a problem with women, and have been ‘strangely silent’ about masculinity in academia, professor argues
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Business school academics: where is your career going?
Four archetypal career tracks exist for business school academics − management, research, academic entrepreneurship and teaching − and you probably need to choose one
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UK plans on student visas fail to empower entrepreneurialism
The government’s illogical restrictions deny the country a potential source of post-Brexit growth, argues Dylan Jones-Evans
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A tale of two viruses
As Covid-19 stalks student halls, universities are accused of allowing intolerance to infect ideals of academic freedom. But is the criticism fair?
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The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination, by Richard Evans
Robert Eaglestone has reservations about a pre-eminent historian’s analysis of the continuing myths about the Nazis
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Anonymise online courses ‘to protect students from foreign laws’
New guidance suggests UK universities could introduce Chatham House rule for seminars to protect recruits from countries with repressive governments
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England’s pre-Christmas lockdown plan ‘unworkable’
Department for Education says details on when universities must stop in-person teaching will be released ‘shortly’