Colleges that advertise their diversity should do more to help poor students
Reduced tuition fees and more hardship scholarships would help those watching Zoom lectures while working on checkouts, says Barbara Franz
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Moving mountains: the reforms that would push academia to new heights
Until the pandemic forced teaching to go online almost overnight, universities were widely considered impervious to major change. But if one age-old practice can be flipped on its head, why not...
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The pandemic could be the making of branch campuses
When students can’t or won’t cross borders, universities can do it instead, says Wing Lam
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Don’t let coronavirus hang internships out to dry
Life in the age of Covid does not lend itself readily to students internships, but there are alternatives, says Benjamin Tak Yuen Chan
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Positives and pitfalls: what is good leadership in a crisis?
Based on interviews with university presidents over the past year, Jon McNaughtan identifies three areas that all campus leaders should focus on during any crisis
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Quality assurance agencies need to reinvent themselves
Two decades of Bologna-driven programme accreditation has proved that universities can be trusted to assure their quality, says Michèle Wera
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Canadian faculty describe despair from online teaching
Opposition, however, may be less about format and more about resource shortages
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Nature’s OA fee seems outrageously high – but many will pay it
Academics remain wedded to prestige indicators, but peer reviewers may conclude that the journal is profiteering, says Dorothy Bishop
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Global university leaders expecting further revenue declines
Survey finds that university presidents in North America are much less likely to feel ready to cope with the crisis this academic year than those in Asia and Oceania
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UK’s 600K overseas student target ‘still achievable’
New ‘international education champion’ predicts numbers will continue to grow despite Covid and Brexit, but modes of delivery will alter
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Japan goes cautiously back to campus for autumn term
Students eager for campus life offer ‘no pushback’ to strict Covid measures being implemented by most universities, including keeping lunchtime conversation ‘to a minimum’
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Trainee teachers help children of self-isolating university staff
Sunderland scheme provides PGCE students with experience while supporting employees juggling work and homeschooling
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Covid-19 will not dent Chinese demand for international education
Coronavirus will not stop China’s growing and ambitious middle class from seeking a Western university education for their children, says Sabrina Wang
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US ‘faces minimum 30 per cent decline’ in international enrolment
Uncertainty over whether on-campus tuition will be able to go ahead leaves commencing students in visa jeopardy
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Yusuf Al-Turki: universities must develop robust systems
Hybrid teaching system the way of the future, says university vice-president of graduate studies and research