Turkish refugee academics ‘facing rights violations abroad’
Study finds dismissed supporters of Academics for Peace struggling to gain residence permits, find work and travel
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English lockdown: return of most students further delayed
A-level exams also unlikely to go ahead as planned
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The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine, by Christine Leuenberger and Izhak Schnell
David Newman applauds a judicious study of the Middle Eastern politics of cartography
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Hong Kong university to close ‘Mecca for China studies’
Invaluable Mao era materials will be digitised on an open-access platform
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Fresh Asian border restrictions frustrate academics and students
One academic faces five weeks of quarantine, while many students can’t travel to campus at all
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UCL tells students to stay away until late February
Students have been told not to return to campus for another seven weeks
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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
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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
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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
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Stop ‘vilifying’ China, Beijing tells social scientists
Ministry warns researchers against ‘degrading’ nation in pursuit of international journal publication
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Australian minister tipped to rethink building blocks of degrees
New minister’s old work on online education could be revived to encourage tertiary sector integration, experts say
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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
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US campus tries rural outreach to blunt political danger
Boise State’s Marlene Tromp sees small-town rescues as solution to anti-intellectual fervour
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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
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The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind, by Martina Zimmermann
Matthew Broome is impressed by a study of our changing ideas about dementia that combines scientific and cultural analysis