Covid-19 is threatening to unleash a pandemic of cheating
Essay mills’ opportunism, preying on student anxiety about online assessment methods, strengthens the case for legislation, says Douglas Blackstock
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Notre Dame elevated to Australia’s ‘public’ network
Expert says favourable treatment of Catholic university is “logical”, but criticises optics of handout to another Catholic institution
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People of the year: who mattered in higher education in 2020
Times Higher Education journalists name the academics and administrators who have shaped the debate in the past 12 months
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Taiwanese scholars slip through cracks of UN rules on China
‘Confusion’ over UN rules leads event organisers to bar students, experts or groups
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New lockdown scuppers Dutch campus opening strategy
Trying to steer a sustainable middle course, Dutch universities have been at 20 per cent capacity this semester
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Scores of antisemitic incidents on UK campuses, says charity
Community Security Trust finds 123 incidents affecting Jewish students, academics and student bodies over past two years
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UK v-cs report ‘significant progress’ on tackling grade inflation
Review says stall in the rise of firsts and widespread commitment to ‘statement of intent’ is already protecting degree standards
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Investment in digital transformation will reap a rich dividend
Mass reliance on the traditional 50-minute lecture format will soon be a thing of the past, says David Maguire
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Industry-backed research ‘much more supportive’ of Big Food
Commercial aid steers research agenda away from public health impacts, Australian study suggests
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The 10 most popular THE rankings stories of 2020
A look at the most-read Times Higher Education university rankings articles from the past 12 months
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Covid ‘nearly eliminated’ on UK campus after asymptomatic testing
University of East Anglia figures show positive cases among students declined dramatically throughout first term, with very few cases among staff
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Australian universities defer decisions on teaching Indonesian
Murdoch gives the language another year and backs away from proposal to sideline some academics from research
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Murder at Harvard: why Jane Britton killing matters, 50 years on
The hard-drinking machismo of anthropology, the silencing of women and the dangers of life on remote digs are unearthed and explored anew
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US scientists taking home-made Covid vaccines
Harvard and MIT researchers and alumni see deadly mistake in long approval processes