Diversifying reading lists should not be skin deep
Diversity makes most sense if it is about authors’ viewpoints rather than their ethnic origins, says Martin Levy
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Experts question Australia’s microcredential proposal
Commentators express doubts over Canberra’s online road to post-pandemic prosperity
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Female Husbands: A Trans History, by Jen Manion
Heike Bauer is intrigued by a study of women who lived as men that raises important questions about gender identities today
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Covid-19 is an opportunity to reimagine international partnerships
Equitable collaborations are key to ensuring that universities can best respond to the SDGs, says Joanna Newman
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Little relief in Australian bailout
Fine print reveals that universities can expect to recoup perhaps one dollar for every seven they lose
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UNC and SUNY reject Elsevier, joining academia’s pushback
Rebuffed on pricing and open access, universities refuse full-access renewals
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Has the leap online changed higher education forever?
Online platforms threw many universities a lifeline, but the experience could well change how they and their students view the learning experience
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Coronavirus article free access ‘doesn’t go far enough’
With insights from a variety of fields potentially useful in the fight against coronavirus, some French academics are arguing for more research and data to be made publicly available
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AI education must help students see inside the black box
Graduates’ common lack of deep understanding about how AI works is hindering industry take-up, says Min Wanli
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Subject-level assessment to boost China’s higher education
Double First Class is a major driver, but Chinese universities still need to bridge with top global institutions, says Simon Baker
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K-pop wave spills over into research and lifts Korean HE
Popularity of Korean films and music drives emerging field of Hallyu studies and boosts Korean universities’ internationalisation
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Learning styles are fake news
Let’s bury the fallacy that students favour particular approaches regardless of the topic, says Gavin Moodie
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Books interview: Kathy Peiss
The historian and author of Information Hunters on the literary puzzles that inspired her historical sleuthing, the librarians and archivists whose work supported the Allies in wartime Europe, and...
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Australian HE relief package takes domestic focus
New arrangements will ‘pivot’ university offerings to areas of greatest domestic need, government says
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Critical thinking and communication will be more necessary than ever post-pandemic
Skills learned in arts and humanities degrees will be vital in understanding the effects of the coronavirus crisis, says Katy Shaw