Asia’s cautious restarts offer glimpse of post-Covid campus life
The areas hit earliest by the coronavirus are reopening, but with protections in place
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Online education can strand the disadvantaged on a Pacific island
Even students on remote atolls face familiar problems around inequitable access to the internet and family support, says Geoff Goodman
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Big data struggles to show its value for social sciences
Failure to improve predictions compounds concerns over effectiveness, accuracy and racial bias
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Books interview: Ute Frevert
The historian and author of The Politics of Humiliation discusses fairy tales and myths, the history of emotions, and the relationships between victim, perpetrators and onlookers
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A methodology to rate Chinese subjects
Times Higher Education takes a closer look at Chinese subjects based on a similar methodology for the World University Rankings, Duncan Ross says
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French trust in science drops as coronavirus backlash begins
More than a third of the public now believe scientists are hiding information – confusion over masks and broadsides from a ‘populist’ microbiologist are blamed
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Political issues complicate hopes for US campus reopenings
Racial awareness mounts, but partisan barriers loom larger
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Online classrooms will expose inequalities, but this is an opportunity for change
The reboot of universities post-Covid against a backdrop of anti-racist protests makes decolonising the curriculum imperative, says Priya Rajasekar
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UK universities face £463m loss from east Asia student decline
But British Council study estimates that income drop could reach £2.3 billion in most ‘pessimistic scenario’
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New Zealand universities’ Covid-19 prognosis looks healthy
A plan to put foreign students in supervised quarantine before studying could rescue international programmes, says Roger Smyth
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Britain’s oldest PhD graduate criticises thesis publication rules
Open access publication of PhD theses makes it difficult for studies to be published as books, says 93-year-old Shakespeare scholar
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Our forced migration to online classes is a time to rethink how we teach
As we integrate online learning more into on-campus classes, let’s break away from synchronous classroom models, says Dilip Soman
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Australian state to guarantee universities’ loans
NSW offer will help ‘bridge the gap’ between Canberra’s lifeline and universities’ needs
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Celebrity’s comment sparks debate about China’s gao kao exam
Public backlash to an admission of cheating reveals underlying tensions in China’s college entrance exam process
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Curbing student complaints caused by Covid-19
Universities must ensure students are satisfied with Covid-19 contingency plans to offset complaints and requests for refunds, argues Susan Matthews