‘Time to go home’, Australian PM tells foreign students
Vice-chancellors stress support for students stranded in crisis
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Coronavirus: UK PhD students urge automatic funding extensions
Funding bodies should reconsider case-by-case assessments to minimise bureaucracy and student distress, say researchers
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Release pandemic modelling, academics tell government
Australian opaqueness risks quarantining decision making and tarnishing image of scientific advice
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Australian emergency fund offers no relief for bushfire research
Grants yet to flow from new fund as nation endures rolling natural catastrophes
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Student applications rise for midyear and 2021
Early figures in Australia suggest the pandemic may be whetting rather than dampening appetite for study
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Reacting to Covid-19 by slashing fixed-term staff would be a disaster
The government must guarantee the sustainability of universities, say Richard Watermeyer, Aline Courtois and Hugh Lauder
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Most prospective overseas students ‘not shifting plans’
But data suggest that students’ views on study abroad are changing by the week as a result of pandemic
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Former WHO director general Margaret Chan appointed at Tsinghua
Chan will head new public health school at China's top-ranked university in the midst of coronavirus pandemic
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Aileen Baviera, 1959-2020
Tributes paid to a pioneering female sinologist
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Interview with Marcelle McManus
The renewable technologies expert discusses being told there was ‘no future in sustainability’ and why cloning herself would be useful
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Would a ‘viral Manhattan Project’ help overcome Covid-19?
Scientists call for global ‘superbody’ to coordinate coronavirus research, but some fear a centralised approach might close off potential solutions
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Southern Africa Impact Forum: Pandemic ‘will lead to rise in research funding with an agenda’
Virtual THE forum hears academics and funders explore how research landscape may change in wake of virus crisis
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Australian university executives relinquish pay as coronavirus bites
La Trobe leaders take temporary salary cut as losses mount, and urge other executives to follow suit
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The week in higher education – 2 April 2020
The academy through the lens of the world’s media
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The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad, by Emily Thomas
Book of the week: Richard Larschan enjoys a wide-ranging survey of the deep intellectual insights and disputes thrown up by the experience of travel