Breaking promises on campus reopening is the least bad option
With infection rates increasing and online teaching well established, why risk everyone’s health by reopening, asks Richard WatermeyerÂ
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China experts fear ‘chilling effect’ of Australian visa repeals
Chinese translators the latest victims as Australia’s security state applies the thumbscrews
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Russia’s limits on critical thinking are hitting its academic performance
Stricter political and administrative controls on what can be said have led to the creation of a pioneering ‘free university’, say Katarzyna Kaczmarska and Dmitry Dubrovsky
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Teaching intelligence: switching online in the middle of a course
From collecting student feedback often and early to alternative assessment methods, four experts from across the globe advise how to switch to online teaching mid-course
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UK numbers boost masks uncertainty over international students
‘Bizarre situation’ where universities are full but still financially constrained, one expert has warned
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Covid-19 is exacerbating early-career researchers’ greatest concerns
Job security, research funding and work-life balance for young academics have all been worsened by the pandemic, say four academics Â
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Most applicants secure university places after A-level U-turn
Ucas says fewer than 1,500 students who missed out on their preferred institution are still unplaced
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California State University to keep teaching online into spring
Nation’s biggest four-year system giving half-million students time to prepare
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Australia ‘copying China’ by excluding foreign academics
As Australia struggles to defend its civic values from foreign interference, critics say translators’ banning shows those values are being undermined from within
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Covid-19: what does a local lockdown mean for UK universities?
Bolton vice-chancellor describes dealing with new restrictions when the start of term is weeks away
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Arizona State vows to lead push for environmental rescue
New $200 million laboratory aims to rectify academia’s past mistakes, but may find familiar limits
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Peter Rathjen: Adelaide crisis forces sector-wide soul-searching
Interstate universities drawn into scandal amid questions over how serial predator kept getting promoted
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An industry-style focus on teaching costs is vital to survive the pandemic
Cost transparency isn’t in universities’ DNA, but those who teach and design modules must be able to apply a clear budgetary model, says Terry Young
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The Beats: A Literary History, by Steven Belletto
David Gewanter suggests that time has not been kind to the works of the wild-living poets and novelists of the Beat generation
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Student Success Forum to assess impact of Covid-19 on two continents
Higher education leaders across Europe and the US will examine access, mental health support and international student enrolments in socially distanced education