The United Nations’ goals provide a useful framework for institutions to demonstrate their impact and work in partnership – activities that are increasingly important in the age of Covid-19, says...
Expecting early career researchers to help with coronavirus testing is unfair if they will suffer financial hardship, says PhD candidate Katherine MacInnes
Catherine Rottenberg discovers how progressive causes can harness the power of ‘counter-data’ to challenge the status quo
US university eyes overhauled residential experience for the autumn, possible wait until 2021
Videos showing minorities being targeted in Guangzhou’s coronavirus crackdown have caused a diplomatic row Â
Coronavirus-enforced lockdown is leading to some unexpected scholarly analysis of Ryder and his team of pups
Some institutions have made serious efforts to protect staff welfare during the Covid-19 crisis, while others have implemented – or said they plan to implement – job and pay cuts
Universities’ reputations will increasingly be driven by their work related to sustainable development, says Stuart McCutcheon
Switching towards peer-to-peer assessment makes sense for distance learning but a longer-term transformation would benefit students, says David Carless
Looking at past crises can help us come to terms with our own, argues scholar of plague that ravaged 18th-century Prague
Maker concedes that SAT, already controversial, could grow even more inequitable
Impact and engagement should be built into the design of academic work, says Matthew Davies
Katie Metzler would like to see the different disciplines become more than the sum of their parts
The approach to monetary penalties proposed by the UK’s Office for Students risks penalising well-run universities disproportionately, argues Martin VincentÂ
Institutions face both praise and criticism while seeking a proper balance, with the University of Chicago contributing a multimillion-dollar package that includes free meals and cash grants