Queen’s Birthday Honours: knighthood for outgoing King’s principal
Physicist Brian Cox, author Bernardine Evaristo and former Ucas chief executive Mary Curnock Cook also recognised
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Going online shouldn’t mean cutting teaching hours, says minister
Liverpool becomes latest UK university to halt in-person tuition due to Covid-19
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Well-being concern over mothers’ caring burden during lockdown
Survey and report by Women’s Higher Education Network urges universities to radically revise their attitudes to deadlines, career development and promotion
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Keep focus on gender equality despite backlash, says Unesco
Warning comes as report on past 25 years of efforts on issue highlight the major challenges that remain
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Why it’s a good idea to build academic alumni communities
Early career scholars, seasoned academics and institutions themselves all benefit from the creation of alumni affinity groups, writes Gretchen Dobson
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Pressure to publish forces Chinese to rethink childbearing
Women on fixed-term contracts twice as likely to have moved forward or delayed plans to start a family compared with permanently employed
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How universities can nurture change-makers for the climate crisis
Threats to environment too great to leave education to scientists alone, says Harvard professor Fernando Reimers
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The pandemic is not an excuse to kill off the arts and humanities
The economics are murky but the damage that closing departments will do to universities’ missions is crystal clear, says Peter Tregear
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Leaders fear for student mental health as Covid hits US campuses
While tallying massive financial harm, campus presidents list student well-being as chief priority
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Newcastle and Northumbria record 1,600 Covid cases in a week
Significant rise in cases confirmed as universities move tuition online
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Malaysia’s U-turn on reopening campuses leaves students in lurch
Widespread anger over cancelled registrations could have been avoided with better management, expert says
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Bans, Walls, Raids and Sanctuary: Understanding US Immigration for the Twenty-First Century, by A. Naomi Paik
Angelia R. Wilson applauds a wide-ranging survey of American racism but remains unconvinced by the solutions on offer
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A$1 billion research boost hailed but long-term outlook uncertain
Australian budget package will tide over universities as they ‘wait and see’ if international fees rebound
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MEPs seek academic protections after CEU ruling arrives too late
Despite a favourable ruling from the EU’s top court, the Central European University, pushed out of Hungary, will remain in Vienna
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Behind the mask: reflections on teaching in the Covid era
Visors, masks and social distancing: staff who have returned to teaching on campus tell us what it’s like