UQ to reconsider China activist's suspension
Media coverage has made it difficult to 'untangle' misconduct allegations from freedom of speech claims, chancellor says
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Only top foreign students in Japan to receive coronavirus aid
Experts are divided on the fairness of instituting GPA and other requirements for some students but not others
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Science curricula must be decolonised too
Exploring the often unsavoury history behind many significant advances can be enlightening and empowering for students, argues Daniel Akinbosede
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How can we save the Mooc?
As most universities digitise all their teaching, they are finding it very difficult to deliver education online. Gorgi Krlev offers three challenges to conventional wisdom
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Soviet Signoras: Personal and Collective Transformations in East European Migration, by Martina Cvajner
Kristen Ghodsee is intrigued by an ethnographic account of how women found ways to reinvent themselves after the collapse of the USSR
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EU pandemic recovery fund ‘neglects long-term research’
Universities warn research allocation is insufficient to brace against potential future pandemic shocks
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Concerns over ‘deeply subjective’ criteria for extra English places
Commentators accuse government of using the crisis to implement Tory manifesto pledges on ‘low-quality courses’
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Cross-border Covid-19 collaboration ‘yet to take off’
Analysis of data on publications also shows emerging field of Covid-19 study ‘remains anchored’ to early Chinese research
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US campuses growing more divided in lobbying strategies
As annual lobbying spending drops to $75 million, bigger campuses take more control
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Pandemic ‘confirms face-to-face teaching is here to stay’
University chiefs laud success of rapid online pivot but say campus-based programmes will not disappear any time soon
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Students ‘support delaying start of UK academic year’, survey finds
Survey for UCU also finds half of prospective students fear crisis cuts will negatively impact their education
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Universities UK publishes principles for ‘emerging from lockdown’
Guidance confirms most planning blended teaching approach from autumn, but specifics will vary based on location, size and type of university
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Asian higher education at the demographic cliff edge
With East Asia’s governments failing to reverse falling birth rates, how should universities adjust to declining numbers of local students? Joyce Lau reports
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THE Asia University Rankings 2020: the spectrum of excellence
There is a broad range of strengths and weaknesses across the continent’s institutions, data show
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Crisis ‘could unify and strengthen’ Asia’s universities
Pandemic-driven shifts could ‘accelerate’ rise of continent’s universities, leaders tell THE event