Well-being concern over mothers’ caring burden during lockdown
Survey and report by Women’s Higher Education Network urges universities to radically revise their attitudes to deadlines, career development and promotion
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The pandemic is not an excuse to kill off the arts and humanities
The economics are murky but the damage that closing departments will do to universities’ missions is crystal clear, says Peter Tregear
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Leaders fear for student mental health as Covid hits US campuses
While tallying massive financial harm, campus presidents list student well-being as chief priority
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Newcastle and Northumbria record 1,600 Covid cases in a week
Significant rise in cases confirmed as universities move tuition online
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Malaysia’s U-turn on reopening campuses leaves students in lurch
Widespread anger over cancelled registrations could have been avoided with better management, expert says
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Bans, Walls, Raids and Sanctuary: Understanding US Immigration for the Twenty-First Century, by A. Naomi Paik
Angelia R. Wilson applauds a wide-ranging survey of American racism but remains unconvinced by the solutions on offer
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Behind the mask: reflections on teaching in the Covid era
Visors, masks and social distancing: staff who have returned to teaching on campus tell us what it’s like
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A$1 billion research boost hailed but long-term outlook uncertain
Australian budget package will tide over universities as they ‘wait and see’ if international fees rebound
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MEPs seek academic protections after CEU ruling arrives too late
Despite a favourable ruling from the EU’s top court, the Central European University, pushed out of Hungary, will remain in Vienna
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Interrupted fieldwork could mean terminated careers for PhD students
Urgent action is needed to help doctoral candidates whose research has been halted by Covid-related travel bans, says Lorena Gazzotti
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Ex-minister: high-risk research funder must not be ‘destructive’
Jo Johnson tells MPs that new research funding agency could damage rest of system if allowed to be an ‘island’ in Cabinet Office
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Covid: Northumbria and Newcastle latest to move teaching online
Announcement comes after Northumbria staff threatened industrial action over institution’s handling outbreak
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Biden free-college plan ‘would pay for itself in a decade’
Georgetown analysis counts benefit of educated workers with better jobs
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History made as two female scientists take Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Award for French researcher Emmanuelle Charpentier and US biochemist Jennifer Doudna is the first double win for female chemists
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Which US states are most vulnerable to overseas student decline?
THE analysis reveals regions that could lose the most financially due to pandemic and policy-related decline