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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."
Universities and those who work there must reimagine spaces, behaviour and processes to promote a sense of belonging for everyone.
The world's third largest producer of scientific research, Germany, is the origin of the research university and the independent, extra-university research institute. Its dual-pillar research policy differentiates these organizational forms functionally: universities specialize in advanced research-based teaching; institutes specialize intensely on research. This article discusses the future utility of the dual-pillar policy.
As campuses reopen without adequate testing, universities fault young people for a lack of personal responsibility.
University associations have renewed a call for a higher budget for EU research and innovation and for academic exchange programmes, after the latest budget draft by EU Council president Charles Michel proposed a €5 billion cut from Horizon Europe.
This study presents indicators of open access at the institutional level for universities worldwide. By combining data from Web of Science, Unpaywall and the Leiden Ranking disambiguation of institutions, it tracks OA coverage of universities' output for 963 institutions.
Study finds the concept of faculty fit in hiring is vague and potentially detrimental to diversity efforts.
The new Department of Homeland Security rule prohibits international students from returning to or remaining in the United States if their colleges adopt an online-only instruction model for the fall.
New research suggests that for a large campus dealing with COVID-19, accurate testing and limits on class size and social contact may be of critical importance.
Why aren't more administrators who say they support diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives reaching out to their black colleagues now?
College leaders seeking to survive and thrive in a post-pandemic environment have no choice but to reassess and redefine their value proposition, argue professors.
Nearly three-quarters of UK universities slipped down while Asian institutions rose.
With student enrolment projected to fall, some US and UK institutions have halted recruitment.
How virtual classrooms and dire finances could alter academia: the first chapter in a week-long series on science after the pandemic.
