Medicine, education and social work back to campus on 4 January
Rest of students’ return to English universities should be staggered from 25 January, while international students asked to reconsider urgency of need to travel to UK

Rest of students’ return to English universities should be staggered from 25 January, while international students asked to reconsider urgency of need to travel to UK

Diana Beech, former adviser to Tory ministers, wants to challenge ‘crude generalisations’ that could hit London’s vital arts courses

Praise for Covid vaccine creators is deserved, but the extraordinary work of other scientists must not be overlooked, says Nicholas Dirks

Government gives priority for medical subjects to restart in first weeks of January, with wider student return ‘kept under review’

Both Nottingham universities’ leaders also honoured, along with former AHRC head Andrew Thompson

UCLA astrophysicist also celebrates female mentorship at key moment

THE’s Careers Clinic series brings together the great and the good of higher education to answer a burning careers question

Calls to redesign curricula for online study ignore how scholars need time and peer support to reinvent courses, says Carole Binns

Lord Wharton of Yarm urged to get up to speed with challenges as ‘quickly as possible’ if appointment confirmed

With just a few notable exceptions, it’s no surprise to find that this year’s most popular stories were dominated by one particular topic

China and India embrace creation of online courses to support universities that lack the capacity to create their own digital programmes

A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Queensland institution spies ‘opportunities’ beyond Java

Survey suggests nation is risking welfare of those it hopes will assist its future growth

Labour warns on uncertainty over future budget for student exchange