Beefed-up TEF and new regulator powers ‘mulled by ministers’
As DfE prioritises drive against ‘low-value’ courses, TEF said to be viewed as inadequate while OfS may be reset under new chair
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Covid-19 researchers live and work in lonely bubbles
‘I can’t afford to self-isolate for two weeks’: academics working on pandemic research disclose the ways they are protecting their personal health
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UK campuses ‘particularly vulnerable’ to student mobility drop
Latest World University Rankings suggest a number of top 200 universities are over-reliant on international student revenues
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The week in higher education – 3 September 2020
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Lack of study space and poor connections hinder online learning
Office for Students says survey shows some students in England are being left behind by ‘digital poverty’
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‘An intellect stripped down to its essentials’
Blindness gave the late politics professor Roger Williams a unique ability to focus on the structure and coherence of what was being said to him. And though his interrogations could be exacting,...
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Interview with Caleb McDaniel
The Pulitzer winner on the resilience of slavery and how universities’ fearless truth-seeking is their best tool to tackle their own troubled pasts
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Mark Ormrod, 1957-2020
Tributes paid to ‘a towering figure in the field of medieval studies’
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Is academic guidance sustainable at distance?
Seeking out students for personal tutoring in socially distanced times is the labour-intensive but necessary task that may defeat universities, says Michael Wynn-Williams
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3 September 2020 digital edition
World University Rankings 2021: results announced
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‘Performative hand-wringing’ failing to tackle university racism
New York University provost says sector approaches to diverse hiring can become ‘distasteful, racist and fetishistic’ exercises
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Pandemic ‘shifting the dynamics’ of university prestige
‘Peripheral’ institutions can more easily ‘play on the world stage’ but most prestigious universities may be more likely to survive and thrive, THE summit hears
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THE World University Rankings 2021: how Covid-19 is changing research
The novel coronavirus has transformed how research is done in many disciplines. But scholars are divided over whether the accelerated pace of science is an entirely good thing
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How the world’s top universities have been impacted by Covid-19
While no universities will be immune to the financial and operational challenges brought by the pandemic, will the research prominence of some leading universities help mitigate the potential damage...
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Africa warned away from ‘research for research’s sake’
Continent’s scholars urged to focus on solving societal problems