Australia’s gender equity push ‘to be maintained during crisis’
Universities pledge that women will not be disproportionately affected by the Covid-19 wrecking ball
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Murdoch accused of using crisis as ‘cover’ to cut research time
Australian university directs academics to spend up to 80 per cent of their time teaching, despite relatively healthy financial position
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Dear senior university leaders: what will you say you did to address racism in higher education?
Posts on social media aren’t enough to dismantle institutional and structural racism in the academy, say Marcia A. Wilson and Lurraine Jones
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No rush to the lecture hall in virus-free NZ
Remote delivery seen as a continuing necessity as long as students are stranded overseas
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Asia’s cautious restarts offer glimpse of post-Covid campus life
The areas hit earliest by the coronavirus are reopening, but with protections in place
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Online education can strand the disadvantaged on a Pacific island
Even students on remote atolls face familiar problems around inequitable access to the internet and family support, says Geoff Goodman
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Big data struggles to show its value for social sciences
Failure to improve predictions compounds concerns over effectiveness, accuracy and racial bias
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Stuttering restart for crucial English language tests
Tests are back in some regions but not others, as international education braces for a staggered start
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Books interview: Ute Frevert
The historian and author of The Politics of Humiliation discusses fairy tales and myths, the history of emotions, and the relationships between victim, perpetrators and onlookers
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A methodology to rate Chinese subjects
Times Higher Education takes a closer look at Chinese subjects based on a similar methodology for the World University Rankings, Duncan Ross says
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French trust in science drops as coronavirus backlash begins
More than a third of the public now believe scientists are hiding information – confusion over masks and broadsides from a ‘populist’ microbiologist are blamed
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Political issues complicate hopes for US campus reopenings
Racial awareness mounts, but partisan barriers loom largerÂ
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Online classrooms will expose inequalities, but this is an opportunity for change
The reboot of universities post-Covid against a backdrop of anti-racist protests makes decolonising the curriculum imperative, says Priya Rajasekar
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UK universities face £463m loss from east Asia student decline
But British Council study estimates that income drop could reach £2.3 billion in most ‘pessimistic scenario’
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New Zealand universities’ Covid-19 prognosis looks healthy
A plan to put foreign students in supervised quarantine before studying could rescue international programmes, says Roger Smyth