England’s higher education regulator to ‘raise quality bar’
Office for Students sets out plans for tougher minimum standards related to student outcomes, including degree completion rates and graduate employment
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What can the West learn from China about keeping campuses Covid-free?
Pre-arrival checks and continuous monitoring of student health are replicable elements of China’s successful approach, say Yingru Li and Jane Duckett
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Former Harvard coach and parent arrested in admissions case
Businessman accused of aiding false charity and buying coach’s house to win sons entry
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Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace, by Sophia Rose Arjana
Ruby Guyatt enjoys a sharp account of the shallow Western infatuation with Eastern religions
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How to prepare for an online university interview
In-person university interviews are unlikely to take place this year, but luckily preparing for an online interview is similar, writes Stephen Spriggs
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English universities plan charter to tackle ‘low-quality’ courses
Move will include guidance around when to close, merge or reform courses, but Universities UK points out difficulty of assessing courses’ value
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US international recruitment down 43 per cent as pandemic hits
Covid massively accelerates decline that was already under way, seen as being driven by Trump administration policies
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Australian minister ‘reserves decision’ on research projects
Pre-approved grants referred to security agencies as another front opens up in debate over research risks
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Russian politics ‘plagued by PhD plagiarism’
Half of regional governors’ dissertations contained copied text, and these plagiarists went on to perform worse in government, research suggests
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Universities may ‘struggle’ to run mass Covid tests, v-cs warn
Sector leaders raise questions over timing of pre-Christmas plans and workload involved
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Exhaustion and uncertainty cloud New Zealand’s Covid-free summer
Island nation’s pandemic management has been the envy of the world, but academics are still paying a price
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The humanities are crucial to addressing the assault on truth
If we can’t find the narrative forms to make the world real to one another, we risk losing our politics to the fantasists and cynics, says Lyndsey Stonebridge
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New book provides self-help for those struggling in academe
Being Well in Academia offers guidance on ‘bullying, conflict, death, poverty, racism and violence’, says author and ‘agony aunt’ Petra Boynton
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We need to talk about student homelessness
UK universities must investigate how many of their students are affected by homelessness – and what can be done about it, says Ricardo Visinho
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International education ‘weaponised’ as geopolitical tension rises
Conference also hears that online learning might present more equitable opportunities for cultural exchange