Stressed US colleges face rising demand for tuition cuts
Lawyers hired by students reject institutional pleas of financial duress
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Bored of your box room? Try being marooned on the ocean!
The coronavirus means that Christiaan De Beukelaer’s research on a sailing cargo ship is lasting a lot longer than he bargained for
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Australian government moves again to exclude universities from bailout
Sector singled out as Canberra makes changes on the fly to its JobKeeper employment subsidy scheme
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How ethicists can help health workers address the Covid-19 crisis
Deborah Bowman discusses the need to challenge medical students’ assumptions about patients with ‘underlying health conditions’
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Don’t let the pandemic overshadow racial inequalities in higher education
The Race Equality Charter must be part of universities’ recovery plans, argues Dave Thomas
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Journals sharing peer reviewers to speed virus research
Publisher coalition also embracing assessments through preprint formats
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PhD students need better protection from Covid-19
The lockdown is affecting not only final-year students. Without a blanket funding extension, many others will suffer and drop out, says Ross Goldstone
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Extra ‘accommodations’ needed for commencing, graduating students
Frustrated final year students could drop out within sight of the finishing line, Australian report warns
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Australian universities, TAFEs dish up snack-sized courses
But commentators question legality, terminology and strategic value
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Huge cash injection for Hong Kong universities’ Covid-19 research
Newly funded work to include investigations into how the city brought infections down to nearly zero
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We can’t go back to ‘wild academism’ after this crisis
Academics are collaborating better and doing work that won’t directly advance their careers – this is what academia should be about, says Mona Nasrallah
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Reporting their impact can help universities secure their future
Requiring universities to report on their impact on climate change and society will remind a sceptical public of their value, says Jaci Eisenberg
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Nobelist calls for £1 billion Covid-19 research prize
Financial incentives for developing new mass-testing methods would be more effective than coordinating research centrally, says economist Paul Romer
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Australia’s successful education exports sector is under threat
Without government support, the country risks losing thousands of jobs and one of its biggest industries, writes Julian Hill
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UK university staff ‘mental health crisis not getting better’
New figures in Hepi report show continued rise in counselling service referrals, with warnings of further impact from pandemic crisis