Coronavirus: growing number of UK universities move to online teaching
Decision by some institutions to end lectures and seminars prompts others to quickly follow suit
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WUR 3.0: how we could broaden our measure of knowledge transfer
Duncan Ross explains how THE could enhance the assessment of university-industry ties in the next iteration of the World University Rankings methodology
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China’s coronavirus lockdown: ‘In this situation, it is important to just keep going’
After six weeks of draconian isolation, Alessandra Cappelletti is looking forward to seeing her students again
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Teaching intelligence: how to take your classes online
Many universities have begun to teach online amid concerns that traditional classes could spread the coronavirus. Yale-NUS lecturer Catherine Shea Sanger explains how it can be done quickly and...
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Australian university adopts ‘planetary health’ as raison d’être
Holistic sustainability concept meshes with ‘moral purpose’ of institution in Melbourne’s unfashionable west
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If the UCU strike achieves its aims, we’ll be worse off
The costs of the UCU’s pay and pensions demands make the fights for lighter workloads, greater gender and ethnic pay equality, and less workforce casualisation impossible, says Alexander Douglas
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Coronavirus ‘shows need for UK and EU to be together’ on research
Influential Portuguese MEP calls for rapid UK-EU agreement on Horizon Europe association
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Coronavirus: LSE to teach online for rest of academic year
Director notifies staff and students of ‘precautionary measure’ as Durham moves to end classroom teaching for remainder of term
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The Self-Help Compulsion: Searching for Advice in Modern Literature, by Beth Blum
Gail Marshall considers a wide-ranging exploration of readers’ desire to find life lessons in books of many kinds
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A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy, by Tamar Herzig
Simon Ditchfield is intrigued by a tale of gambling, conversion and betrayal in Renaissance Italy
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University leaders ‘prioritising reputation over tackling harassment’
But vice-chancellor says UK sector is at ‘tipping point’ of culture change
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Coursera goes free for universities affected by coronavirus
The online provider’s entire catalogue will be available to campuses shut down because of virus
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Boxing Pandora: Rethinking Borders, States and Succession in a Democratic World, by Timothy William Waters
David Newman assesses a provocatively idealistic argument for rethinking our assumptions about national frontiers
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(B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire, by Nadine El-Enany
Georgie Wemyss considers how the UK’s legislation about immigration is still entangled with its imperial history