Australian minister tipped to rethink building blocks of degrees
New minister’s old work on online education could be revived to encourage tertiary sector integration, experts say
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Measuring quality with metrics ignores transformative mentoring
Metrics rarely reflect how students have addressed their weaknesses, which is itself the most rewarding part of university teaching, says Megan Argo
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US campus tries rural outreach to blunt political danger
Boise State’s Marlene Tromp sees small-town rescues as solution to anti-intellectual fervour
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The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind, by Martina Zimmermann
Matthew Broome is impressed by a study of our changing ideas about dementia that combines scientific and cultural analysis
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Medicine, education and social work back to campus on 4 January
Rest of students’ return to English universities should be staggered from 25 January, while international students asked to reconsider urgency of need to travel to UK
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London Higher head aiming to counter government ‘preconceptions’
Diana Beech, former adviser to Tory ministers, wants to challenge ‘crude generalisations’ that could hit London’s vital arts courses
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In the midst of a pandemic, let’s not ignore the rest of science
Praise for Covid vaccine creators is deserved, but the extraordinary work of other scientists must not be overlooked, says Nicholas Dirks
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Student returns to English campuses restricted for early January
Government gives priority for medical subjects to restart in first weeks of January, with wider student return ‘kept under review’
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New Year Honours 2021: knighthood for Stirling v-c
Both Nottingham universities’ leaders also honoured, along with former AHRC head Andrew Thompson
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Careers Clinic: how should I react to negative student feedback?
THE’s Careers Clinic series brings together the great and the good of higher education to answer a burning careers question
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Pandemic is no time for a pedagogy overhaul
Calls to redesign curricula for online study ignore how scholars need time and peer support to reinvent courses, says Carole Binns
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Nobel winner Ghez credits publics for innovative embrace
UCLA astrophysicist also celebrates female mentorship at key moment
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New OfS chair pick shows Johnson’s ‘political control freakery’
Lord Wharton of Yarm urged to get up to speed with challenges as ‘quickly as possible’ if appointment confirmed
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Times Higher Education’s most-read articles of 2020
With just a few notable exceptions, it’s no surprise to find that this year’s most popular stories were dominated by one particular topic
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Will Moocs rise again in Asia?
China and India embrace creation of online courses to support universities that lack the capacity to create their own digital programmes