Universities Need to Wise Up - or Risk Being Consigned to History
The pandemic has shown that other ways of teaching and learning are possible
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The pandemic has shown that other ways of teaching and learning are possible
We are at a tipping point, a time of transformation for society and universities. A new report highlights some of the issues facing European universities.
This seminal document is the result of extensive consultations and deliberations with EUA members and partners over a six-month period in 2020. It sets out a vision of resilient and effective universities, serving Europe's societies towards a better future.
Online learning is fragmenting the traditional model of the university as a single site for both education and research. In this blog, it is discussed how this digital transition is reshaping universities.
A better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria would improve the systems of recognition and rewards in academia.
The pandemic has exposed the impact of 20 years of turning higher education into a marketplace and students into increasingly dissatisfied customers.
OpenAIREs 12th workshop on University approaches to Citizen Science in the transition to Open Science Institutional opportunities and challenges for creating an open and inclusive environment for Research.
Black workers at universities are among the most vulnerable people on campuses. But they often are left out of conversations about racial justice.
Face masks are vital to containing the spread of COVID, but lecturers and universities must find ways to be inclusive, say Olivier Pourret and Elodie Saillet.
With no bailout forthcoming from the government, financially strapped British universities beckoned students back to campus, with predictably dire results.
For three days this event brings together teachers, students, university management and other stakeholders from universities, politics and society. It will create a virtual space for exchange on higher education.
Exhibiting a dogmatic faith in metrics, higher education executives are being guided less by rational considerations about educational values and more by the "snake oils" of efficiency, profitability, and accountability. But these dark arts exact a price. Due to increasing competition for funds and jobs, and with the jobs themselves becoming increasingly precarious, universities have become "anxiety machines" for academics.
The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. The infographic indicates patterns of international collaboration captured by the Nature Index.
One of the UK’s leading public health experts has warned that universities should be two-thirds empty in order to prevent massive spikes in coronavirus infections across campuses.
The government and vice-chancellors have a duty of care, yet in too many colleges, Covid security is mere hygiene theatre.
After 25 years I feel Britain has broken my trust. I'm one of many academics who now see their future in Europe
The academic and broadcaster recounts her experience of harassment by a colleague.
After COVID-19 researchers on the East Coast received a package containing an "unknown substance," the University of Washington told 500 of its staff to be on alert.
The coronavirus is spiking around campuses from Texas to Iowa to North Carolina as students return.
The Boston university dismissed the students they were caught gathering at a hotel.
Edgenuity involves short answers graded by an algorithm, and students have already cracked it.
Over a third of US colleges and universities fully reopened in August.1. It was risky.
With a poor return of value, and a huge overhead for research, patents are a bad investment for the academy, this article argues.
Lecturers say cases may soar as students move in, but ministers insist institutions are prepared.
"We don't … understand the extent of how this could impact us legally; we're just scared because we know it could," one student says
We want to hear how researchers and students are managing the start of term.
Schools face rising demands for tuition rebates, increased aid and leaves of absence as students ask if college is becoming "glorified Skype."