Subject-level assessment to boost China’s higher education
Double First Class is a major driver, but Chinese universities still need to bridge with top global institutions, says Simon Baker
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K-pop wave spills over into research and lifts Korean HE
Popularity of Korean films and music drives emerging field of Hallyu studies and boosts Korean universities’ internationalisation
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Learning styles are fake news
Let’s bury the fallacy that students favour particular approaches regardless of the topic, says Gavin Moodie
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Books interview: Kathy Peiss
The historian and author of Information Hunters on the literary puzzles that inspired her historical sleuthing, the librarians and archivists whose work supported the Allies in wartime Europe, and...
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Australian HE relief package takes domestic focus
New arrangements will ‘pivot’ university offerings to areas of greatest domestic need, government says
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Critical thinking and communication will be more necessary than ever post-pandemic
Skills learned in arts and humanities degrees will be vital in understanding the effects of the coronavirus crisis, says Katy Shaw
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Online PhD vivas become unlikely spectator sport in Covid-19 era
Unexpected numbers are tuning into doctoral and master’s defences, with shutdown likely to lead to longer-term reforms to vivas, says Dutch professor
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UK universities have come together to maintain quality standards during this crisis
Providing hardship funding to buy laptops and being flexible with evaluations are among the best practices the QAA has observed, writes Vicki Stott
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Poorest students most at risk in US online learning ‘experiment’
Continuing remote teaching in the autumn will be unsustainable for some institutions, warns leader of online college
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Universities UK: state bailout required to save institutions
Vice-chancellors’ group makes unprecedented appeal for government aid following dire financial forecasts caused by coronavirus restrictions
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Defend long-term research, scholars urged after ERC head quits
Mauro Ferrari departed after suggesting launch of a coronavirus programme, but critics warn against abandoning blue-skies science, even in a crisis
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Researching Covid-19 must not become a feeding frenzy for opportunists
Whatever the truth around Mauro Ferrari’s resignation from the ERC, the affair raises an important issue, says Luca Magnani
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Will the coronavirus kill liberal arts colleges?
With admissions already in decline, Brian Rosenberg wonders whether the end may finally be nigh for many colleges
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Covid-19 memoir: how I returned home as a Chinese student studying overseas
After the coronavirus outbreak hit France, Chinese student Yuzhen Xie had to cut short her year abroad and find a way to return to China amid travel bans
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More than half of Chinese students ‘could still cancel UK study plans’
British Council survey suggests more than a third are still undecided about whether to continue with applications