How academia shunned the science behind the Covid vaccine
Katalin Karikó’s struggle with mRNA gives universities mandate – if they want – to tackle persistent barriers
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Racism victims ‘struggle to access mental health support’
Study warns lack of ethnic minority representation among counselling staff could lead to problems being dismissed
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The shift online has finally made space for disabled students
This swift transformation highlights who among our students we think are worthy of learning and who we choose to leave behind, says Clare Mullaney
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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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Sexual assault ‘built into design of university environment’
Universities should urge their students to behave better but also must consider how they may enable abuse, argue Columbia professors
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Empathy with students is important – but it is very difficult
His experience teaching in Iraq has underlined for Jack R. Williams the perils of simply extrapolating from personal experience
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India and Indonesia among UK sector’s priority overseas markets
Update to government’s international education strategy names five target countries and provides more detail on Turing scheme
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Even those who drop out of university should have their progress certified
Flexibility around degree provision is the only way to ensure that workforces are equipped for the future, says Liz Barnes
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Minister: traditional higher education model ‘no longer relevant’
Long-standing divides between schooling, employment and industry will be disrupted, predicts Singapore MP
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India hands £5 billion budget to new research funder
Budget also aims to cut bureaucracy and open up internationalisation avenues
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MPs back Conservative peer to lead English sector regulator
Education Select Committee endorses appointment of Lord Wharton as Office for Students chair
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Pacific v-c fights for job as council fails to resolve crisis
Crisis precipitated by proposal that could have shifted pan-Pacific university’s headquarters from Fiji, embattled leader says
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Publishers claim Plan S’ repository rules will bankrupt journals
Major scholarly publishers warn that some titles will become unviable unless open access scheme changes tack on compliance
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Collecting data online is fast, but do we lose too much context?
The ‘feel’ for a person that comes from encountering them in their home is difficult to replicate in depth online, says Graham Crow
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How to navigate choppy, elitist waters as a working-class academic
It will do no harm to find colleagues who understand the role of social, economic and cultural backgrounds in academia, says Carole Binns