US asks universities not to send Covid-infected students home
Number of virus cases on campuses continues to spiral
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The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), by Katie Mack
Cait MacPhee enjoys a tour of the disaster scenarios that put even a pandemic into perspective
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Beefed-up TEF and new regulator powers ‘mulled by ministers’
As DfE prioritises drive against ‘low-value’ courses, TEF said to be viewed as inadequate while OfS may be reset under new chair
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Covid-19 researchers live and work in lonely bubbles
‘I can’t afford to self-isolate for two weeks’: academics working on pandemic research disclose the ways they are protecting their personal health
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UK campuses ‘particularly vulnerable’ to student mobility drop
Latest World University Rankings suggest a number of top 200 universities are over-reliant on international student revenues
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The week in higher education – 3 September 2020
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Lack of study space and poor connections hinder online learning
Office for Students says survey shows some students in England are being left behind by ‘digital poverty’
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‘An intellect stripped down to its essentials’
Blindness gave the late politics professor Roger Williams a unique ability to focus on the structure and coherence of what was being said to him. And though his interrogations could be exacting,...
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Interview with Caleb McDaniel
The Pulitzer winner on the resilience of slavery and how universities’ fearless truth-seeking is their best tool to tackle their own troubled pasts
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Mark Ormrod, 1957-2020
Tributes paid to ‘a towering figure in the field of medieval studies’
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Is academic guidance sustainable at distance?
Seeking out students for personal tutoring in socially distanced times is the labour-intensive but necessary task that may defeat universities, says Michael Wynn-Williams
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3 September 2020 digital edition
World University Rankings 2021: results announced
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‘Performative hand-wringing’ failing to tackle university racism
New York University provost says sector approaches to diverse hiring can become ‘distasteful, racist and fetishistic’ exercises
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Pandemic ‘shifting the dynamics’ of university prestige
‘Peripheral’ institutions can more easily ‘play on the world stage’ but most prestigious universities may be more likely to survive and thrive, É«ºÐÖ±²¥ summit hears
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É«ºÐÖ±²¥ World University Rankings 2021: how Covid-19 is changing research
The novel coronavirus has transformed how research is done in many disciplines. But scholars are divided over whether the accelerated pace of science is an entirely good thing