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Without face-to-face interaction, new students could struggle to make friends and adapt to university study, leading to dropouts later, institutions fear

Job security guarantees would tie management’s hands while offering only short-term cost relief, v-cs say

Improving remote learning may be smartest move universities can make, quality chief advises

As after the 2008 financial crisis, Swedes have responded to the coronavirus-induced downturn by making plans to return to university

National move to reconciliation tests boundaries of academic freedom, say some observers

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Deleted posts, suspensions and investigations are part of a larger trend of control that predated the pandemic, experts say

Representatives agree to discuss how to safely reopen campuses

UC plans four years without requirement while it tries to write its own test

Support and opposition on both sides could make job-saving pact a close-run thing

Actor and fashion designer husband accept months in prison over fraud in daughters’ USC admissions

State institutions that survive crisis will face student influx and must prioritise ‘communities they were designed to serve’, experts say

Women’s careers suffer as they pick up the pieces at work and home

EUA policy expert warns against financially driven institutional mergers as solution in crisis

Activists campaign for less reliance on international education income, as government flags a ‘supervised’ reopening of borders

UK research will become more interdisciplinary and community-focused in wake of pandemic, academic leaders tell THE event

If successfully validated and patented, viral extraction kit could help country to be self-sufficient in testing for virus, say researchers 

While institutional accounts indicate that the average university boss could have pocketed seven-digit earnings last year, 2020 will be a different story

Meanwhile, the University of Bolton details plans to fully reopen in September, including use of temperature scanners

‘Classic risk management tools’ helped protect the University of Tasmania, says its former management consultant boss

Victoria’s A$350m lifeline adds to the pressure on Canberra to do more to help embattled sector

Social scientists should be more open that their policy advice is usually based on small experiments done in university settings, study recommends

Experts warn that, while it is important to stabilise the sector, the proposed conditions threaten university autonomy

World’s biggest academic publisher signs ‘global first’ open science agreement with Dutch universities and research councils

Academics recognise need but fear loss of attention on basic science

New survey aims to foster more international collaboration in studying contemporary writing and help academics understand the needs of potential overseas students

Government backs universities on imperative of satisfying full-tuition visitors

Initiative hopes to drive promising performers into fundamental science and basic research

Responses to survey of junior research staff and PhD students suggest majority have major concerns about their future as they deal with stresses of working under lockdown

Accusations that China is stealing virus research could harm US vaccine efforts and overseas enrolments, experts warn

While NSW support package is dwarfed by Victoria’s offering, reopening economy suggests better times ahead for struggling students

After more than a decade of federal spending increases, the country also looks set to overtake Japan on the proportion of GDP spent on innovation

Dutch coronavirologist describes how work put on ice two years ago turned into a major discovery 

Longevity experts predict that with universities forced online and desperate for new revenue, shift to older students will follow

Course cancellations offer chance to boost internationalisation by aligning Japan’s calendar with many other developed nations

Australian universities decline union-sponsored agreement, citing individual circumstances and governance concerns

Analysis shows that a dramatic loss of fee income will hit institutions in Wales harder than the rest of the UK

Hepi report offers both negatives and positives on outlook for postgraduate recruitment in wake of pandemic crisis

Policy experts express fears that public and politicians will hold scientists responsible for the economic and social damage of lockdown

Many bosses lead from the front, ceding 20-plus per cent of their pay to help plug pandemic shortfalls

The Sainsbury Laboratory director will oversee a huge increase in R&D spending as head of UK’s main research funder

The academy through the lens of the world’s media

Some succour for NZ universities and students in budget aiming to support training for those who have lost jobs in crisis

England's OfS reveals how next year's £48 million teaching grant cut will be spread across institutions

Record year for university philanthropy in UK and Ireland sees Oxford and Cambridge dominate fundraising

Scientists fighting for more publicly available research say changes made during Covid-19 crisis have influenced their efforts

Redundancies beckon at Australia’s oldest university as bosses and workers alike hold the line

Anticipating a renewed coronavirus outbreak, California State University plans for semester online

Bitter internal conflict brews over union plan to offer pay concessions in return for employment safeguards

Academic union faces member fightback over détente with university administrations

Whether it’s to be ‘business as usual’ or not, social scientists have much to offer in discussion about how to move on after ravages of Covid-19

Trade-offs involved in pandemic are ‘bread and butter’ for the discipline and it could be ‘drawn into the broad sciences’, experts suggest

Who will be the winners in the post-pandemic academic job market? Three experts reflect on the skills that will be prized in the ‘new normal’

Email to students confirms that University of Manchester will keep lectures online in 2020-21, though tutorials will be held in person

Virologist Christian Drosten has become a high-profile commentator on the pandemic in Germany, but are other disciplines stealing the limelight elsewhere?

Innovation on the line, as coronavirus unleashes domino effect on research mainstream

Student wariness may deliver final blow to crisis-weakened institutions

Clay feet of cross-subsidy policies exposed by Covid-19 crisis, representative groups say

Universities hardest hit by coronavirus crisis might need to accept merger or mission shift in exchange for state aid, warn sector leaders

Academics involved say they also have a responsibility to ensure technology is used ethically in real life, particularly amid Covid-19