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With foreign student numbers down and forlorn hopes for a government bailout, sector’s hopes may lie in expanded domestic enrolments

Virus crisis will affect domestic recruitment, but impact of falling overseas admissions seen as greater

University pulls move to consider ‘other traditions of academic freedom’ in overseas partnerships after outcry

Survey of undergraduates also finds just under half of students are satisfied with online teaching during pandemic

Tough choices await as institutions revisit ideas that could cut staff numbers and ramp up fees

Bumpy road ahead, as education ministers fail to agree terms on tertiary admissions rank

Reliance on formulas and philosophies giving way to complexity and case studies

A new HE system based on the UK model should ‘promote rather than regulate’ universities 

‘Don’t sideline us from giant subsidy scheme’, universities and medical research institutes beg government

Abrogating responsibility could torpedo industry and trigger a public health crisis, Canberra warned

Such legislation could curtail academic freedom, say scholars

The UK’s Science Media Centre director Fiona Fox says new visibility of experts will be crucial in combating doubts on official advice during troubled times

Pandemic-driven grading shifts illuminate long-accepted inequities

More than 10,000 signatories want summer exams made optional and teaching loads cut, raising the question: how productive can academics really be during a pandemic?

Ucas says overall applicant behaviour has so far been consistent with previous cycles

Vice-chancellors stress support for students stranded in crisis

Funding bodies should reconsider case-by-case assessments to minimise bureaucracy and student distress, say researchers

Australian opaqueness risks quarantining decision making and tarnishing image of scientific advice

Grants yet to flow from new fund as nation endures rolling natural catastrophes

Early figures in Australia suggest the pandemic may be whetting rather than dampening appetite for study

But data suggest that students’ views on study abroad are changing by the week as a result of pandemic

Chan will head new public health school at China's top-ranked university in the midst of coronavirus pandemic

Scientists call for global ‘superbody’ to coordinate coronavirus research, but some fear a centralised approach might close off potential solutions

Virtual THE forum hears academics and funders explore how research landscape may change in wake of virus crisis

La Trobe leaders take temporary salary cut as losses mount, and urge other executives to follow suit

The academy through the lens of the world’s media

Derision of expertise has been concentrated in the US – but that’s where it matters most, say former Antipodean chief scientists

An economic downturn prompted by the virus outbreak creates many uncertainties, but could public backing for science investment actually increase?      

UNSW Sydney-led network highlights coronavirus and climate change parallels on need for global coordination

Universities urged to take opportunity to introduce innovative ‘next-generation’ assessment and boost ‘academic productivity’

Paul Howarth joins from Law Business Research

Analysts advocate hands-off assistance package, with universities unlikely to share latest government bailout

The gao kao, taken by 10 million students annually, will be delayed until July because of pandemic

Questions abound over entitlement to A$130 billion economic stimulus, as expert warns of ‘imminent’ financial crisis

Coronavirus crisis may make institutions more eager to please to students, but ‘tensions’ already in evidence

One epidemiologist called a colleague a “charlatan” over his coronavirus tweets. Should academics “stay in their lane”  when commenting on the pandemic?

As campuses and labs close amid the coronavirus crisis, Jack Grove hears how senior scientists are managing their teams and research projects

Sheffield Hallam vice-chancellor argues for ‘radical action’, while Alistair Jarvis says Universities UK will explore the possibility

Research funders, regulator and bureaucrats ease pressure on academics and universities as coronavirus blows out timelines

Call for universities to extend casual contracts to protect staff and stop them losing jobs because of coronavirus disruption

Alarmed by losses, main institutional group eases previous opposition to reopening

An unheeded call for tuition fee refunds in Hong Kong echoes concerns around the world

City, University of London professor calls for the creation of a food security council to feed academic expertise to ministers

Latest data also suggest a fall in the absolute numbers of younger EU academics working in the UK

Whether it is establishing new departments or working at breakneck speed, Britain’s research base is mobilising in extraordinary ways to combat Covid-19

New controls will ‘only be used when absolutely necessary’, minister assures educators

Minister says overseas students and staff will not be penalised if their visa has expired or they take distance learning courses

Australian and NZ rumblings reflect UK qualms about politicians’ selective ears

Democratic frontrunner raises fear among private colleges after taking on Bernie Sanders’ plan

Western universities will have to ‘hunt’ for scarce overseas students, warns leading internationalisation scholar

Professor helping to advise ministers says meeting daily deadlines for the government makes it difficult to share findings and research with standard ‘polish’

Rapid change of tack from the UK government raises questions about interaction between science and policy

The academy through the lens of the world’s media

Global project reveals that several countries violate scholarly autonomy despite having constitutional provisions for academic freedom

Death of legendary Australian educator recalls missed opportunity to integrate tertiary education

But institutions warned against United Nations framework becoming a ‘tick-box exercise’

Commentators say the English regulator’s ‘sensible’ change in policy and tone should become the norm after the coronavirus crisis ends

The search for a coronavirus vaccine is spurring worldwide collaboration, the speed and size of which has never been seen before, say experts

Scientific advisor network starts collating examples of research influencing, and failing to influence, policy

Research Excellence Framework 2021 put on hold to allow universities to focus research efforts on virus battle