Coronavirus

Rich accounts of how we screamed at the television, went swimming and adapted to the ‘surrealness’ of life during a pandemic fill a new archive

Universities need to take account of the pandemic’s effect on productivity – especially that of women, says Jessica Borger

The pandemic has exposed the limits that commercial models impose on libraries’ ability to facilitate access, says Gauthier Van Malderen

Lift your game, minister tells Covid-struck universities, as students mark institutions down on engagement

Amid the economic ravages inflicted by the coronavirus, the EU has agreed a huge stimulus package. But while research in some countries looks set for a transformational boost, it may be a different story for teaching

Japanese and Korean schools struggle to recruit as border restrictions continue

Chinese students becoming more supportive of authoritarian government during time in liberal democracy

Critics say university lent undue weight to analysis that was not peer-reviewed, but some worry scientists have shied away from fully investigating hypothesis

University of Colorado study suggests low risk from most infected people, even room-mates

A year since face-to-face academic conferences were cancelled, Jack Grove hears from scholars on their mixed experiences of digital events

Students’ gravitation towards communal living may be exactly the insight we need to solve the stubborn problems of remote learning, says Carlo Ratti

Netherlands government’s package of support for students and universities comes as calls for fee refunds mount in England

All faculty endure mounting stress over online instruction, but BAME academics face an even more precarious situation, say Henrika McCoy and Madeline Y. Lee

Self-reporting of performance is notoriously unreliable and, more significantly, satisfaction is distinct from well-being, says Stephen Wood

Trusting in the continuing power of prestige to open employers’ doors is a dangerous strategy, say Alejandro Caballero and Sean Gallagher

The pandemic may be goading Australia’s stay-at-home students to look further afield for their education, although some of them may ultimately decide to stay put

Measure doubles previous support and sets stage for student loan cancellations

Unions continue to resist idea of expanding face-to-face tuition further this year

Educational link ‘as bad as it has ever been’, with billions of dollars at stake for universities

Time extensions on tenure may be among wrong cures, US National Academies assessment suggests

Two-thirds of UK students say well-being has worsened since start of term, ONS reports

Digitisation opens up a world of possibility but it doesn’t compensate for the loss of physical interaction, says Mark Griffin

We want commercial success but can’t build it on an empty research larder, university lobby tells Canberra

Recession-driven domestic surge more than compensates for loss of international students at some institutions Down Under

THE’s Careers Clinic brings together the great and the good of higher education to answer a burning careers question

Royal Statistical Society president Sylvia Richardson says pandemic has sparked huge interest in the discipline and highlighted body’s vital public role

My plumber made me realise that being just a ‘professional and efficient’ teacher wouldn’t cut it during this time of transition, says Peter Vanberkel

Rites of passage failed to launch this year, from sex to graduation. We have a moral duty to help students find meaning in their lives, says Bertus Jeronimus

Academics and public health officials quit Covid-19 research or need police protection after attracting threats

Postgraduate admissions assessments may have digital element despite falling number of Covid cases

Toll on younger scientists highlights lack of research-specific pandemic aid

Survey for regulator finds teaching staff more likely to lack access to right technology and support compared with students, and are less confident in their skills

Repeat of autumn semester outbreaks adds to mounting pressure on Greek system

Digital divide is ‘greatest challenge’ facing country’s education system in Covid era, researchers say

The University of Groningen’s response to the pandemic has been widely lauded. Key to it was taking teachers and students seriously from the start, says Klaas van Veen

Bringing students back in tranches may increase the prospect of repeated self-isolation and may simply delay outbreaks of Covid-19, research says

Students share in small permanent increase to welfare payments

Trauma suffered by lecturers who were forced to teach in-person during coronavirus spike should not be dismissed, say Paul Hanna, Carl Walker and Mark Erickson

Actors? Videographers? Graphic designers? Covid has forced academics to wear many uncomfortable hats, say Christine Rivers and Anna Holland

More students to return from 8 March, but other learners must keep studying online until a review by the end of the Easter holidays

Almost 40,000 student cases were reported before November but most staff cases have been reported since 

UK Research and Innovation announces additional £11 million for UK doctoral students but rejects plea for blanket six-month extensions

No institution will be able to make it alone amid the pandemic-induced tumult, so let’s make shared values the antidote to the crisis, says Ferruccio Resta

Due to the 2008 global financial crisis, a long shadow loomed over me and my cohort. Over the medium term, though, most of us made it, says Lucas Lixinski

Experts voice caution on prospect of quick bounceback in UK overseas recruitment post-Covid, highlighting issues around affordability and changing competitive landscape

Industry operatives’ worst fears could cost universities thousands of staff and country tens of billions of dollars

‘No detriment’ policies lead to wide variation in degree classifications across sector

Many institutions may find it challenging to translate the crisis experience into an immediate enhancement of teaching and learning, says Michael Gaebel 

Leaders say they are happy to support safe return of students, but worry about timing and convincing staff

Warnings that some universities could become master’s-free zones overlook progress during the pandemic, vice-chancellors say

Holyrood ministers say pandemic restrictions mean students have been unable to gain sufficient clinical experience

mRNA pioneers, Oxford vaccine scientists and Bill Gates are potential contenders for science’s top prize

An ideological gap has grown, where some universities have different ideas to students about the concept of a university, says Steve Davies

Katalin Karikó’s struggle with mRNA gives universities mandate – if they want – to tackle persistent barriers

This swift transformation highlights who among our students we think are worthy of learning and who we choose to leave behind, says Clare Mullaney

Reduced tuition fees and more hardship scholarships would help those watching Zoom lectures while working on checkouts, says Barbara Franz

The ‘feel’ for a person that comes from encountering them in their home is difficult to replicate in depth online, says Graham Crow

Announced increases in hardship funding are not enough, while missed educational opportunities must be replaced, says Paul Blomfield

Arizona State University president says digital learning shift must ‘stay attached’ to core knowledge-generating activities

Respondents to THE survey reject idea of tuition fee refunds for students