Universities ‘must change’ amid pandemic restlessness
Pre-crisis gripes must be addressed as sector yearns for a more understanding community
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Anger as UKRI rules out blanket funding extension for PhDs
Extra funding will be prioritised for those in final year or those with ongoing support needs, with other students urged to adapt their projects to existing deadlines
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Universities told to resist ‘creeping securitisation’ of fieldwork
Academic says some safety requirements increase risk to researchers and encourages institutions to take flexible, academic-led approach
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There’s still a lot of work to be done
In the post-Trump, pandemic era, universities must redouble efforts to change the narrative, win back public trust and help heal divided societies
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Teaching intelligence: infusing sustainability into a curriculum
How can universities ensure that students learn vital lessons in sustainability in all their courses? Anna McKie talks to three leaders who have already done so
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Don Porter, 1938-2020
Tributes paid to ‘an extremely significant figure’ in the assessment of academic English
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The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Higher Education since the Second World War, by Peter Mandler
David Willetts welcomes a bold account of how the battle between democracy and meritocracy has transformed higher education in the UK
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Hindsight’s hoard: What academics most wish they had known earlier
The acquisition of wisdom about life and career can be just as long and challenging a journey as any research project. Luckily, many wheels have already been invented. Here, seven academics offer the...
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Interview with Claudio Saunt
Scholar of Native American history shortlisted for two major non-fiction prizes discusses why the US needs a ‘reckoning’ with indigenous dispossession
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Government response to Augar still expected with spending review
English sector awaits details of rebalancing towards further education, along with HE policy statement and campus free speech bill
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Elite universities urged to investigate graduate gender pay gap
Figures suggest that graduates of UK’s highly selective institutions and specialists have widest differences in pay
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Biden faces struggle to reboot foreign student recruitment in US
President-elect will have to do more than reverse Trump’s executive orders to rebuild the reputation of US higher education, say experts
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The week in higher education – 12 November 2020
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Locked-down students had less time in class but felt more engaged
Annual survey of UK students also reveals significant increase in students’ caring responsibilities and paid work