Moocs have helped Italy keep teaching during the pandemic
Online learning content is being shared across universities and accessed by record numbers of users, say Valentina Reda and Ruth Kerr
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How to administer the digital migration
Swift decisions are needed on contact hours, attendance and assessment, says Benjamin Tak Yuen ChanÂ
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ÌÇÐÄVlog’s Power of Place Survey 2020
THEÂ aims to probe the institutional and geographical factors that recruit and retain university staff
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Bring back student number controls, VC says
Sheffield Hallam vice-chancellor argues for ‘radical action’, while Alistair Jarvis says Universities UK will explore the possibility
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Deadlines extended for Australian funding applications
Research funders, regulator and bureaucrats ease pressure on academics and universities as coronavirus blows out timelines
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‘Grim situation’ for UK’s fixed-term staff in virus crisis
Call for universities to extend casual contracts to protect staff and stop them losing jobs because of coronavirus disruption
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US colleges feel overlooked in nation’s huge economic bailout
Alarmed by losses, main institutional group eases previous opposition to reopening
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Governments have ‘responsibility’ to help reimburse students
An unheeded call for tuition fee refunds in Hong Kong echoes concerns around the world
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To give our youth a post-coronavirus future, we must cancel student debt
Our students will be burdened with paying back current emergency spending and they deserve a fighting chance, says Sir Keith BurnettÂ
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Guest authors are plagiarists
Denying legitimate authors their fair share of credit amounts to academic misconduct, says David Sanders
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Food policy expert: UK’s failure to prepare for crisis ‘embarrassing’
City, University of London professor calls for the creation of a food security council to feed academic expertise to ministers
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It’s now or never for universities to be civic
Universities are facing immediate challenges, but they’d be short-sighted to not prioritise civic activity, says Richard CalvertÂ
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Would a Longitude Prize speed production of a Covid-19 vaccine?
To stop economic destruction, we need to refocus vast resources from other productive activity – a truly grand prize might do the trick, says Chris Callaghan
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Half of academics leaving UK are EU citizens
Latest data also suggest a fall in the absolute numbers of younger EU academics working in the UK
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UK researchers redeploy to fight coronavirus
Whether it is establishing new departments or working at breakneck speed, Britain’s research base is mobilising in extraordinary ways to combat Covid-19