Biden prods states to share burden as free college plan unveiled
President offers states three-to-one split on college aid boost alongside 20 per cent rise in Pell Grant
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What are academics looking forward to about returning to campus?
As vaccination programmes offer the prospect of a return to physical teaching, what aspects of their pre-pandemic life will academics most heartily re-embrace (or at least touch elbows with)? And are...
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Mary Vaughan Johnson, 1961-2021
Tributes paid to visionary teacher of architecture who encouraged students to ‘dream wildly’
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Interview with Anthony Schrag
Artist and researcher Anthony Schrag on the importance of interdisciplinarity, how university changed him and why art will be even more important in the post-Covid world
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‘Truly extraordinary’: v-c’s £322K award gets long justification
Statement in financial accounts explaining Bolton leader’s pay runs to almost two and a half pages
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Academics fret as Turnitin nears monopoly on plagiarism checks
Proposed acquisition of Ouriginal would give academic integrity giant vast majority of market
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Pass sexual consent test if you want to enrol, say students
Call comes after publication of thousands of allegations of sexual harassment and abuse on UK campuses
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The week in higher education – 29 April 2021
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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US colleges’ billion-dollar question: is philanthropy worth the cost?
With wealth and donations becoming concentrated in ever fewer, ever more influential hands, and with some institutions languishing while the elite flourish, Paul Basken asks whether it is time for...
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29 April 2021 digital edition
Influential dollars: is philanthropy worth the cost to HE?
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Freedom of speech really is at risk – but beware of top-down solutions
With some academics being willing to oust those they disagree with, self-censorship is a huge, unacknowledged problem, says James Tooley
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‘Forceful response’ buoys Australian universities’ viability: S&P
Ratings agency credits lay-offs, casualisation and course cuts for Australian universities’ ‘relatively robust’ position
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US eases visa rules for students from top supplier nations
Policy shift nevertheless leaves major backlogs and processing limits
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University presidents make global social responsibility pledge
Institutions band together at Tsinghua event to address climate change and other crises
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Mobile students ‘not prepared to pay full quarantine costs’
Survey finds that aspiring overseas students are still looking for promise of face-to-face teaching