This year has seen university life disrupted in ways previously unthinkable. The impact of Covid-19 continues to reverberate across the academy, affecting staff and students, research and teaching, and, increasingly, the relationships between town and gown.
To help us forge forward to address these enormous challenges, THE is convening a day of must-attend virtual discussions for university stakeholders. Together, we will collectively take stock and draw up a vision for UK higher education in 2021 and beyond.
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Join us for this vital gathering for all who care about the future of UK universities, which will close with positivity – the reveal and celebration of winners of the THE Awards 2020.
The event will be facilitated by our new immersive virtual events platform. Our online environment enables you to connect with delegates from around the world, access essential content and create new partnerships through this time of global separation.
Tutors at the University of Oxford will examine information on the socioeconomic background of applicants for several PhD programmes as part of a drive to diversify admissions.
Leading human rights barrister calls on UK law schools to address ethnic minority under-representation among academic teaching staff. Philippe Sands told THE that the under-representation of BAME legal scholars should be a ‘matter of real concern’ for UK universities.
Head of UK Research & Innovation will urge scientists to help shed public view that research is an ‘elite and alien world inhabited by boffins’. Scientists must do more to debunk the myth that science and innovation ‘is run by and for the elite’.
