Thomas Symons, 1929-2021
Tributes paid to ‘intelligent, witty and compassionate leader’ who transformed Canadian studies and forged a major new collegiate university
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Back graduate tax and make pre-fees students pay too, England told
Hepi paper by former Uclan deputy v-c calls for new funding system in which richest graduates pay more
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‘Biden bump’ boosts international applications for US study
Initial estimates indicate jump in applications for coming year in excess of 10 per cent
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The week in higher education – 21 January 2021
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Barber: capping student numbers would stifle social mobility
Outgoing Office for Students chair defends university expansion before taking up government role
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Academics are promoting the wrong kind of rigour
My student is right to wonder out loud why learning in college must be a forced march rather than a playful adventure, says Gregory Skutches
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21 January 2021 digital edition
Leading the way: can universities make the Rust Belt shine again?
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Shakespeare in your living room: How AR can transform teaching
It won’t be long before we’re all looking to immersive technology to further students’ learning, says Mary Matheson
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Trump pardons wealthy parent in college admissions scandal
Outgoing US president cites USC trustee in rationale for helping fellow Florida developer
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Only academics can run universities effectively
The tired stereotype of the unworldly scholar has often been used to justify giving excessive influence over university management to businesspeople and administrators. There is ample evidence that...
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Can universities manufacture a post-industrial future for the Midwest?
Freshly inaugurated US president Joe Biden owes his election victory to swing states in America’s Rust Belt. But is his plan to revitalise them by creating ‘millions of new manufacturing and...
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Experts doubt lasting change to academic work practices post-Covid
Institutions have introduced four-day weeks during lockdowns, but scholars suspect most changes will be temporary
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Universities negotiate with lenders as pandemic finances bite
Warnings that banking covenants could be breached in some scenarios emerge in latest accounts
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Chinese universities told student cheating could cost them funding
Campuses rated below par for three years in a row could be asked to suspend undergraduate recruitment
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The future of the traditional lecture is up for debate once more
Universities should partner with students instead of treating them like passive recipients of our superior knowledge, says Simone Buitendijk