Online exams: is technology or authentic assessment the answer?
Academics debate how best to test students’ learning at a distance and reduce cheating: remote invigilation or exercises that ask students to apply their knowledge
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Staff or students? PhD students face worst of both worlds in lockdown
Ambiguous status of postgraduate research students in lockdown has underlined why they should be treated as staff, says Rebecca Teague
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Don’t lecture me about the future of the lecture
Despite the strong rhetoric currently en vogue, an end to lectures entirely would be an intellectual loss, says Seán Williams
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Record number of complaints to ombudsman for England and Wales
Full impact of pandemic on Office of the Independent Adjudicator caseload may yet emerge
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Employers’ leader calls for understanding as UK pay talks fail
Union describes proposed salary freeze as an ‘insult’ but universities point to financial woes
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Student arrivals to remain limited in ߣߣÊÓƵ and New Zealand
International student flows kept on drip feed as politics, fear and logistics trump large-scale influxes
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One in three UK graduates got a first under ‘no detriment’ rules
OfS head warns that pandemic uplift must not ‘bake in’ further grade inflation over longer term
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Protests have ‘substantial impact’ on Chilean rectors’ tenure
Research finds that every demonstration against a sitting university president reduces their time in office by 66Â per cent
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Confused by conflicting career advice? That’s inevitable for academics
The never-ending checklist of skills required by academia means careers advice is rarely consistent, says Maarten van Smeden
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Is anyone else finding that women contribute more in online classes?
Online teaching has allowed less-confident students, so often female, to create for themselves a space in which to speak, says Madeleine Davies
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Questions mount over future of ‘rogue’ French research institute
University Hospital Institute Méditerranée Infection, under leadership of ‘populist’ microbiologist Didier Raoult, continues to push hydroxychloroquine in the face of evidence
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No confidence vote in Leicester v-c as 145 at risk of redundancy
Union branch passes motion in response to plan to axe some 60Â jobs
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Scotland and Wales seeking to stay in Erasmus+
Devolved nations say they should be given any replacement funding for scheme from UK government ‘in the first instance’
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‘Blue card’ call for free movement of academics across UK and EU
LSE research head says academia should work with other service sectors to enable free movement for a fixed period of time
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Canada pushes abundant PhD graduates towards industry needs
Doctoral glut seen as especially bad in nation that does too little research