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The Pulitzer winner on the resilience of slavery and how universities’ fearless truth-seeking is their best tool to tackle their own troubled pasts

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

‘I can’t afford to self-isolate for two weeks’: academics working on pandemic research disclose the ways they are protecting their personal health

Office for Students says survey shows some students in England are being left behind by ‘digital poverty’

Tributes paid to ‘a towering figure in the field of medieval studies’

New York University provost says sector approaches to diverse hiring can become ‘distasteful, racist and fetishistic’ exercises

‘Peripheral’ institutions can more easily ‘play on the world stage’ but most prestigious universities may be more likely to survive and thrive, THE summit hears

Continent’s scholars urged to focus on solving societal problems

As universities renew their pedagogical efforts, there is no case to lower tuition fees, summit hears

China makes record-breaking achievements in latest league table as experts predict that the pandemic may accelerate the country’s rise

Universities should capitalise on their students as an asset, says UN environment expert

Panel stresses importance of ethics training for field that generates moral questions ‘on steroids’

Mamokgethi Phakeng says universities often ‘part of the machine’ that perpetuates white privilege and exploitation of Global South

But observers question whether it can last, as pandemic lays waste to the business model

A Pakistan-based institution saw a new generation of leaders emerge during Covid-19

Former Theresa May adviser Nick Timothy to interview hopefuls to head regulator, alongside Tory peer, former Tory MP and ex-Tory candidate

Scholars say the pandemic has drawn attention to the uncertain and adaptive nature of research and called for a broader range of evidence to be valued

Study provides further arguments against traditional academic publishing beyond cost and access, says author

NYU president counters that such competition is what drives science forward

Wits v-c says that decolonised knowledge must not be sanitised knowledge

Manchester v-c says Covid response has transformed inter-university and regional government collaboration in city

Nottingham vice-chancellor insists international collaboration can become ‘even better’ using digital communication

Toronto president tells summit that ‘quality of city’ is crucial for university headhunting

Covid-19 is disrupting academic and student mobility in short term but university leaders are optimistic that higher education will maintain its international outlook

No redundancy target announced as Australian university braces for massive loss of international earnings

CEU president says that rather than relying on ‘outside institutions’, academics and students must stand up for themselves

Senate vote suggests government has a fight on its hands with proposed funding changes

Study finds economics PhD students who sought extra comments and seminar presentations published in higher impact journals   

Oversubscribed institutions seek legal advice over asking for deferrals if their courses are full

Scholar highlights continuing challenges of collaborations with North African state

As hopes sour for a senate inquiry into proposed domestic funding arrangements, universities’ China links fall under another spotlight

Co-director of research project says deal includes measures to ‘safeguard’ against risks and Dutch authorities were consulted

Corporate funders suspected of fuelling idea of on-campus living for online courses, despite health concerns

UCU warns that reopening of campuses next month could drive a surge in coronavirus cases, making universities the ‘care homes of a second wave’

Though it’s tiring and challenging, some scholars believe their time in online teaching may make them better university educators, reports Jack Grove

University of East London warns it faces a £31 million revenue loss over the coming year, and needs to cut costs to stay solvent

Degrees will not be granted without final-year assessments, even if they are delayed 

Indian education agents call for 25 per cent reduction in fees as courses move online

Online restrictions, which mirror existing rules for in-person events, raise academic freedom concerns

UUK and MillionPlus make call via task force amid fears some universities could lose hundreds of students each after lifting of number controls

Brick-and-mortar foreign universities not viable without further details, conference hears

Opponents seize momentum as pandemic leaves majority of US universities test-optional

Proposed legislation could ‘throw the baby out with the bathwater’, opposition warns

Experts see move to allow applicants from beyond Europe to apply for UKRI funding as a key plank of the UK’s post-Brexit research base

Web of Science data show how the science superpowers are positioned as political debate rages over their future relationship  

Pledge draws respect given Google’s size, but triggers doubts about its eventual extent

Hundreds of Indian students given the all-clear to enter country – but getting there is another question

Prime minister decides on ‘need for fresh official leadership’ after A-levels U-turn

Chancellor fell on his sword after respecting victims’ pleas for confidentiality, accepting poor legal advice and swallowing ‘lies’ about sex scandals

Hampshire College bounces back from the brink

Journal reputation also a factor but likely to have only a small bearing on rapid rise of APCs

Set up by young researchers, new publication will highlight where studies went wrong – but it may struggle to attract submissions

Wearing of face coverings by school staff and pupils in communal areas becomes mandatory in areas of high coronavirus transmission

Concessions address some concerns about proposed changes, but other worries linger

Latest allegations against controversial president prompt resignation demand

Colleges, in turn, are accused of ignoring behavioural inevitabilities

Experts unimpressed by new attack on queer theory, post-colonial theory and other forms of ‘social justice scholarship’ by controversial authors

German researchers let members of the public fire questions at them in 20-minute slots, and the result is a deep, albeit narrow, form of science communication

Warning on endowments leaves academic leaders struggling to see rationale

Expectations nevertheless modest given historical trends and virus complications