Professor who called students ‘vectors of disease’ suspended
Soon-to-retire septuagenarian tells students to keep their distance amid Covid-19 surge, saying he ‘couldn’t give a flying fuck any longer’
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Michigan president Mark Schlissel fired over employee ‘affair’
Anonymous complaint produces evidence of long-running relationship with employee; former president Coleman to temporarily lead institution
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US set to drop charges against MIT’s Chen on China research funds
Following conviction of Harvard’s Lieber, expected clearing of fellow Cambridge nanotechnology expert fits with broader failures of Trump-led academic prosecutions
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Canada joining the rush to create a Darpa
Trudeau government set to fulfil campaign promise for version of legendary US innovation agency, amid mixed expert assessment of its wisdom
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Afghan students ‘in doldrums’ at Iraqi university
Students complain of being ‘kept in dark’ over immigration status and pushed into MBA programme
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English sector ‘won’t be open on foreign donations unless forced’
MP’s draft transparency law comes after failure to self-regulate against threats such as autocratic influence, says academic
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Slogans are no substitute for concrete university policies and programmes
Marketing claims are often empty, unaccompanied by comprehensive policies, plans, timetables or evaluation criteria, says Harvey Graff
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China looks to universities to lead development of its mid-west
New schools of future technologies and modern industries part of 10.7 billion yuan plan
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The UK’s limping knowledge transfer efforts need to leapfrog forward
Adapting and adopting US approaches to commercialisation offer an opportunity for the UK, says Chris Loryman
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‘First in family’ is still a useful metric of disadvantage
Without it, we could lose sight of the subtleties of the sliding scale of disadvantage and its impact on participation, says Jayne Taylor
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Dartmouth extends need-blind admissions to international students
Pledges of $90 million help Ivy League campus join small club depleted in recent years by financial stress and prioritisation of domestic applicants
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‘Major outbreaks’ of Omicron likely on UK campuses, warn experts
Delayed roll-out of booster jabs among UK’s younger population means thousands of students will be at risk of serious infection, say researchers
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‘Too ugly to teach’: universities ‘must end’ anonymous evaluation
Continuing to offer anonymous surveys just invites abuse of lecturers, say ߣߣÊÓƵn researchers
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US universities mull adopting New York college’s four-day week
While its educational niche may confer unique advantage, D’Youville shows it can maintain student services with one less day
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What use is the immutable syllabus in a tumultuous age?
Perhaps it is only by recasting an agreement as an adventure that professors can respond to the urgency of our times, says Robert Zaretsky