‘Forceful response’ buoys Australian universities’ viability: S&P
Ratings agency credits lay-offs, casualisation and course cuts for Australian universities’ ‘relatively robust’ position
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US eases visa rules for students from top supplier nations
Policy shift nevertheless leaves major backlogs and processing limits
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University presidents make global social responsibility pledge
Institutions band together at Tsinghua event to address climate change and other crises
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Mobile students ‘not prepared to pay full quarantine costs’
Survey finds that aspiring overseas students are still looking for promise of face-to-face teaching
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‘Unprecedented’ UK aid cuts have ‘enormous’ impact on researchers
Research council head calls for ‘long-term vision’ to end cross-border funding ‘volatility’
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Pandemic forces France to contemplate UK-style student loans
Lockdowns decimated the part-time jobs on which French students relied, and debate is now under way over how to fix ‘broken’ system of state support
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Overseas research cuts threaten UK’s ‘levelling up’ agenda
Imminent research cuts linked to GCRF reductions could fall heavily on UK’s regions, figures show
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Oxford doctoral system criticised as Wolf thesis finally released
Lack of transparency in examinations under spotlight as US feminist’s dissertation finally lodged in Bodleian
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Is the benefit of the REF really worth the cost?
Simpler options are imperfect but perhaps no more so than the panels’ unavoidably cursory ‘peer review’ of submissions, says Dorothy Bishop
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International students focus on open borders, not Covid caseloads
Covid safety almost a liability as Australia and New Zealand relegated as ‘spectators’ rather than participants in international education recovery
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Tory MPs urge minister to intervene over campus ‘antisemitism’
Education Committee chair says Bristol’s handling of David Miller case has created ‘hostile environment’ for Jewish students akin to ‘1930s Germany’
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National Academy of Sciences votes in new class with gender equity
Women gain milestone at prestigious science body although racial divide remains wide
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Florida professor quits after graduate assistant’s suicide
Tao Li to leave amid ongoing investigations into 2019 death of Huixiang Chen
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Teaching intelligence: how to encourage entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship skills can benefit students and society, but many universities aren’t giving the area the attention it needs, experts tell Anna McKie
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French professor free to harass hydroxychloroquine critics online
Eric Chabriere’s attacks against critics of hydroxychloroquine are seen as a sign of the social-media-induced radicalisation that has occurred during the pandemic