The week in higher education – 26 November 2020
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Ombudsman shows caution on complaints over Covid online shift
English and Welsh ombudsman willing to admonish universities over Covid-related disruption only if they have not made effort to deliver quality online learning, case summaries reveal
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Alfaisal University sponsored supplement
Produced by THE and Alfaisal University. A paid partnership with Alfaisal University.
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Interview with Sophie Hannah
The crime writer on how to teach mystery writing, why she loves self-help books, and the literary appeal of a campus murder
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Angelika Amon, 1967-2020
Tributes paid to a geneticist whose ‘trailblazing science’ was matched by her ‘fearlessness’ in calling out discrimination
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Pedagogy has nothing to teach us
Most lecturers dread educationalists’ holier-than-thou, discipline-blind invocations of the latest teaching fads, says an anonymous academic
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The glut of prizes is undermining the true value of research and teaching
Universities are now committed to ‘celebrating success’ and to treating every failure as just a stepping stone on the way to further success. Yet this, argues Joe Moran, is a betrayal of what really...
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How should universities approach decolonisation?
The movement to ‘decolonise’ university curricula has leaped into the political and educational mainstream in the wake of George Floyd’s death, dividing opinion on campus and beyond. Anna McKie...
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Colleagues ‘over the moon’ at academic’s release from Iran
As Australia’s Kylie Moore-Gilbert prepares to come home, UN human rights observers express grave fears for Iranian-Swedish academic
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January university start ‘off the table’ for UK admissions reform
Ucas signals that admissions body has moved towards supporting post-qualification offers
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UK boosts research budget but fails to confirm £22 billion target
Chancellor’s spending review research boost leaves questions around earlier promises, as funds committed for Erasmus replacement
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Canada takes new look at universities in its remote north
Indigenous peoples balance patience and autonomy with the lure of education and jobs
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Many masters, few functionaries as professional ranks transform
Unpublished Australian data show that number of regular support staff positions has shrunk while executive roles have expanded massively
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Three universities unite for new bid to scale up Sheffield’s AMRC
Plan seems to unite various factions after acrimony, but could hinge on Whitehall’s post-Cummings appetite for research ‘levelling up’
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Students rage as China campus lockdowns drag on
Some students have been stuck on campus for months despite no local cases being reported