Turkish refugee academics ‘facing rights violations abroad’ Study finds dismissed supporters of Academics for Peace struggling to gain residence permits, find work and travel By Ellie Bothwell 5 January
Brexit deal offers flexibility over UK Horizon Europe repayments If the UK wins more money from the EU’s flagship research programme it will have to pay it back – but only if the imbalance is structural By David Matthews 5 January
Scientists fear ‘big waves’ of Covid if campuses reopen this term Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies members say that teaching should stay online until Easter By Anna McKie 5 January
English lockdown: return of most students further delayed A-level exams also unlikely to go ahead as planned By Chris Havergal 4 January
UCL tells students to stay away until late February Students have been told not to return to campus for another seven weeks By Jack Grove 4 January
Blanchflower aiming to counter ‘disastrous’ austerity economics Economist calls for emphasis on wages and jobs as antidote to ‘failed’ doctrines, as he takes up Glasgow role looking at independent Scotland By John Morgan 4 January
Doubts raised over UK’s alternative to Erasmus+ Turing scheme will not cover tuition fees, travel costs to the UK or staff exchanges, leaving UK universities to negotiate fee waivers By David Matthews 4 January
Choosing sides in campus culture wars is counterproductive Academics should not be seduced by the moral certainty on either side of the ‘with us or against us’ divide, says Brad Evans By Brad Evans 4 January
Broken employability metrics need a post-pandemic revamp New measures that provide insight into how universities build personal qualities of their graduates are needed, argue Doug Cole and Dino Willox By Doug Cole 3 January
Measuring quality with metrics ignores transformative mentoring Metrics rarely reflect how students have addressed their weaknesses, which is itself the most rewarding part of university teaching, says Megan Argo By Megan Argo 2 January
Medicine, education and social work back to campus on 4 January Rest of students’ return to English universities should be staggered from 25 January, while international students asked to reconsider urgency of need to travel to UK By Anna McKie 31 December
London Higher head aiming to counter government ‘preconceptions’ Diana Beech, former adviser to Tory ministers, wants to challenge ‘crude generalisations’ that could hit London’s vital arts courses By John Morgan 31 December