Pandemic ‘will drive universities into lifelong education’
Longevity experts predict that with universities forced online and desperate for new revenue, shift to older students will follow
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Crisis reignites row over autumn start for Japan’s academic year
Course cancellations offer chance to boost internationalisation by aligning Japan’s calendar with many other developed nations
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Melbourne rejects job protection deal
Australian universities decline union-sponsored agreement, citing individual circumstances and governance concerns
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Women in science are battling both Covid-19 and the patriarchy
The pandemic has worsened longstanding sexist and racist inequalities in science pushing many of us to say ‘I’m done’, write 35 female scientists
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Welsh universities face ‘serious and pressing’ threat in virus crisis
Analysis shows that a dramatic loss of fee income will hit institutions in Wales harder than the rest of the UK
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We must supplement Zoom with small-group, face-to-face teaching
Video conferencing is a reasonable substitute for lectures, but that is where it must end, say Robert Zaretsky and George Alliger
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UK postgraduate sector’s reliance on Chinese students spotlighted
Hepi report offers both negatives and positives on outlook for postgraduate recruitment in wake of pandemic crisis
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Science ‘risks coronavirus backlash’ as it is drawn into politics
Policy experts express fears that public and politicians will hold scientists responsible for the economic and social damage of lockdown
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Three in four Australian v-cs take pay cuts
Many bosses lead from the front, ceding 20-plus per cent of their pay to help plug pandemic shortfalls
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Interview with Gordon Harold
The University of Cambridge’s inaugural professor of the psychology of education and mental health talks about switching from sport to science and why it’s so important to research education and...
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Donald Kennedy, 1931-2020
Tributes paid to former Stanford president who raised a record-breaking $1.3 billion for the university
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The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games, by Bonnie Ruberg
Tanja Sihvonen enjoys a collection of interviews with the queer game makers who are transforming the whole world of video games
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The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History, by Paolo Zellini
Tony Mann is impressed by a study of what we mean by numbers that ranges across millennia
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Dame Ottoline Leyser to head UKRI
The Sainsbury Laboratory director will oversee a huge increase in R&D spending as head of UK’s main research funder
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The week in higher education – 14 May 2020
The academy through the lens of the world’s media