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Working-class school-leavers’ fear of debts larger than their parents’ annual incomes is still a big issue, say Geoffrey Alderman and Zoe Morrison 

The University of Toronto president has ‘doubled down on internationalising’ while remaining rooted in the Canadian metropolis for almost four decades

Vaccine inequality and over-reliance on remote data collection threaten to diminish marginal voices, say Nicole Stremlau and Gianluca Iazzolino

Managing climate change and pandemics alike requires immediate engagement with policy, not science-first rhetoric, argues Mike Hulme

Recent cuts and scares have cast doubt on ministers’ commitment to harnessing science in pursuit of a levelled-up, post-Brexit innovation economy. Questions also remain about how funding should be distributed and directed. Jack Grove examines the lessons from history and from overseas

Making campuses sustainable will help limit future climate change but won’t protect against current threats, say Frank Fernandez and Hilary Coulson

Policy should focus more on research’s benefits to a region than on where it is conducted, say Sarah Chaytor, Grace Gottlieb and Graeme Reid

The opportunity exists to reimagine the UK’s post-18 education system in a way that will improve society as well as the economy, says Susan Lea

As physical retail declines, universities can keep high streets vibrant by moving into vacated shops, says Matthew Andrews 

Jeremy MacClancy has mixed feelings about a wide-ranging attempt to create ‘mindful food citizens’

The discipline’s existence reflects an enduring Western belief in the inferiority of knowledge production specific to different cultures, says David Simon

It is often forgotten that this group suffers from even worse educational outcomes than white, working-class boys, says Nick Braisby 

David Newman applauds a judicious study of the Middle Eastern politics of cartography

With global warming a priority for the next US president, the International Universities Climate Alliance can lead the academic response, says Ian Jacobs

The popular conception that US academics are uniformly liberal fails to take into account universities’ subject breadth, says John R. Thelin

We must move away from small-scale mitigation efforts and think on a larger scale about how to radically revamp teaching and research, says Joy Carter

Assessing doctoral candidates’ published papers instead would teach more useful skills and improve morale, says Noam Schimmel

Bradley Garrett has crossed the globe to meet those who stockpile food in fortified shelters in anticipation of apocalyptic disasters. As a global pandemic seems to confirm some of their fears, he tells Jack Grove what we can learn from them – and what they’ve got wrong

The coronavirus means that Christiaan De Beukelaer’s research on a sailing cargo ship is lasting a lot longer than he bargained for

Pace of disruptive change is falling, claims book by Oxford geographer, who says virus crisis could herald a kinder form of politics

Varying personal circumstances highlight the need for accommodations that outlive the coronavirus, says Phil Emmerson

A new alliance of 40 of the world’s top climate change research universities will ensure better access to the facts, say Ian Jacobs and Matthew England

David Newman assesses a provocatively idealistic argument for rethinking our assumptions about national frontiers

Georgie Wemyss considers how the UK’s legislation about immigration is still entangled with its imperial history

During his time as a graffiti writer, Stefano Bloch was chased by the police, threatened by gangsters and witnessed savage violence. He tells Jack Grove about how he has incorporated such experiences in a powerful memoir that also makes an important contribution to research on urban life

Joad Raymond applauds a stimulating account of how mapping shaped our understanding of Europe and the world beyond

Lisa Hopkins enjoys an ingenious analysis of the ways that ‘discourses of mapping’ influenced attitudes to gender

Academics able to specify areas of interest to collect imagery of

Oxford professor challenges his fellow geographers to reflect on their often myopic perspectives

‘Monk mornings’, work sprints and withdrawal from social media helped Benedict Probst become hugely more productive

Collaborators criticise lack of sanction against Anna Lora-Wainwright, but internal investigation finds she did not intend to deceive

State school students are more prominent at undergraduate level, but what about postgraduate, ask Claire Hann and Danny Dorling

Students want above all to develop ties with the people and places they interact with, say Liam Keenan and Maddy Thompson

Tributes paid to a scholar with ‘empathy’ for understanding people of different faiths

Universities must draw up agreements with local partners that have the public voice at their heart, says Richard Brabner

Book of the week: Jerry Brotton is enthralled by a book that seeks to overturn just about everything we think we know about maps

As the UN reviews its Sustainable Development Goals, Ã…se Gornitzka and Sidsel Roalkvam argue that the push for quality education needs to go well beyond primary schools

Gradual changes to lifestyles will not save the planet. Universities need to go beyond Cambridge's recent lead and think bigger, says Peter Harper

Researcher hopes showing at United Nations will spur further action to help the most disadvantaged artisans

Travel can be a way to find aspects of oneself by immersion in elsewhere, finds Jeremy MacClancy

Jenny Pickerill argues that we need more practical suggestions on how to tackle institutions’ resistance to decolonisation

The Republic of Ireland’s resident Eurovision expert discloses the secrets to winning Europe’s infamous song contest and why it is not just about political alliances

Convincing universities to divest from fossil fuels and use only green energy is a better strategy, says Thomas Smith

Book of the week: A secret cartography project is a route to the past – and your house, finds Jerry Brotton

Perhaps good fences can make good neighbours after all, suggests David Newman

HEA's latest National Teaching Fellows announced

Robert J. Mayhew finds the pioneering environmental thinker’s meditations on population, resources and ecology more relevant than ever

Vice-chancellor believes international scholars can be tempted away from the golden triangle and to the North of England

Book of the week: Danny Dorling lauds an exposition of the benefits of obligation-free income and how to attain them

London as an eco-village? Treehouses in Accra? Danny Dorling lauds beautiful and bold what-ifs

Environmental organisation praises UK sector for climate efforts but calls for universities to do more

New app helps people ‘move beyond the headlines’ about climate change

Institutions need to adapt their courses to account for how climate change is altering business, argues former MBA director

Centre for the GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway will use interdisciplinary tools to explore everything from Elizabethan England to climate change and migration

We talk migration, being an academic outsider and Brexit with the RGS award winner

Certain fields are unable to participate in ‘democratisation of education’ because of issues such as copyright, says study

Leeds and OU programmes signal significant change in online platform’s pricing structure

Researchers find variation in marks given by same lecturers to similar students when working in different departments

Lisa Mckenzie on a study of the personal stories of female workers in different industries and the challenges they faced

A geographer who radically reformed the discipline has died