Indiana University students sue over Covid vaccine rule
Institution confident of legal victory, but political costs loom in conservative state
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Have young universities adapted better to聽the Covid-19 crisis?
The pandemic has hit older populations harder than the young. Might the same be true of universities?聽Ellie Bothwell considers if聽the聽flexibility and agility聽of聽younger institutions made them more...
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Young University Rankings 2021: table information
Key statistics The information shown under key statistics is that provided by the university itself in its submission to the聽Times Higher Education聽World University Rankings. It represents data from...
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Researchers 鈥榩lot promotions using conference collusion rings鈥
Secret lists of preferred papers have been circulated prior to computer science meetings to help favoured scholars get ahead, says US professor
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NIH funds cluster hiring of ethnic minority scientists
New programme for universities modelled on version that increased racial equity within NIH鈥檚 own聽laboratories
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Gag clauses 鈥榖ecoming the norm鈥 in Australian redundancies
Covid redundancy terms include non-disclosure and non-disparagement obligations, as corporate HR culture captures universities
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Death of three-hour exam looms as pandemic reshapes assessment
Many UK institutions say they do not plan to return to pre-pandemic methods and will use next academic year to test new approaches
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Unions condemn English university arts cuts in letter to聽PM
Plans to reduce teaching grant are one of 鈥榖iggest attacks on arts and entertainment in English universities in living memory鈥
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Do Zoom classes confirm our worst fears about human nature?
Some students have abused privacy allowances and marking latitude 鈥 but others鈥 ongoing engagement has been heartening, says Robert Zaretsky
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Pandemic shock 鈥榟as exposed university teaching inequalities鈥
Governments have focused on building up a lavishly funded research elite, but the forced switch online has made them realise losers in this system cannot cope
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Digital collaboration alienating junior scholars, warns professor
Young researchers forced to interact online 鈥榙o not feel part of a team鈥 and may leave sector, educationalist tells summit
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Under-fire Lancet admits conflict of interest on lab-leak letter
After criticism that it failed to declare Peter Daszak鈥檚 work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, journal has also 鈥榬ecused鈥 zoologist from its coronavirus origins taskforce
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Russia blacklists US liberal arts college
Action against Bard College threatens novel liberal arts degree and widens Putin crackdown on higher education
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Young universities 鈥榖etter suited to changing times鈥
Covid has created a platform for institutional newcomers to 鈥榣eapfrog鈥 established frontrunners
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Teaching intelligence: assisting those who lost out on learning
The pandemic has not hit all students鈥 learning equally. Anna McKie talks to聽two experts on how to spot those who may have fallen behind and help them get up to speed