Let’s not toss away our hard-won digital teaching expertise
Disabled, disadvantaged, introverted and international students may all appreciate ongoing online options, says Robert Phillips
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Disadvantaged students ‘six times as expensive to teach’
Eye-popping results from Australian study warrant complete overhaul of how teaching subsidies are distributed, researchers say
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US students make gains in lawsuits over online teaching
From hundreds of complaints over virtual teaching, a pattern of deference to institutions, except for those that had long discounted the format
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Minerva comes of age, hoping it’s not too late
New university finds early success with online teaching in local environments worldwide, but fears higher education may already have lost the public
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Peer reviewing is becoming more cavalier, self-serving and ignorant
The professionalism and collegiality with which editors used to respond to complaints has all but disappeared, says Harvey Graff
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Difficult questions as Harvard counts long-held human remains
University’s near-complete accounting reported to find 7,000 Native Americans and 19 victims of slavery among bodies used in often-racist research
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Queen’s Birthday Honours: damehood for outgoing Oxford v-c
St Andrews principal and former UCL president also honoured alongside retiring Research England head
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Rebuild sector around cooperation, not competition, say leaders
Instead of creating ‘strong leaders’, institutions should aim to educate students to be ‘someone everyone wants to work with’, academics told
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Asia University Rankings 2022 digital edition
A stratospheric rise has been the story of Asian higher education. Here, we explore the likelihood of that narrative continuing and see how some countries are addressing the challenges they face
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Asia University Rankings 2022: results announced
Saudi Arabian universities improving fast in regional ranking
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Will East Asia still emerge as a regional higher education hub?
Amid continuing border restrictions and geopolitical uncertainty, experts examine whether an increase in intra-Asian student mobility remains a realistic prospect
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Asia University Rankings 2022: playing to strengths
Asia’s major higher education systems still largely focus on the sciences, according to THE data
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Asia University Rankings 2022: a pause for reflection
As the region’s boom slows, countries can focus on weak points and readjust aims, writes Ellie Bothwell
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Moocs ‘a useful reality check’ for Asian universities
Free online courses have much to offer professors, including feedback on their own performance
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Widening opportunity in higher education is about more than access
Retention, progression and completion data arguably better reflect the work universities do to help students fulfil their potential, says James Miller