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
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
Union members mount fightback as their leadership countenances pay cuts
Astrophysicists’ data analysis and precision measurement expertise harnessed to combat pandemic
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