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Spike in student demand driven by economic woes could force government to bring back demand-driven system

Science minister announces new joint team of government departments to consider assistance for sectors

English universities urged to refrain from increasing use of controversial offers after exams cancelled amid virus crisis

Surprise results as Tohoku University tops national ranking for first time, while Tokyo Tech rises to third place

Delay midyear intake or risk losing subcontinent students to Britain, association warns universities

The erection of borders, disrupted transport and fear of infection mean many will have to stay put, but their mental health could be at risk, universities are warned

The coronavirus will have a ‘massive effect’ on the international student market, and UK universities need to be clearer about their guidance and support for those students, experts have warned

Australian stimulus package risked making it ‘more profitable’ to be jobless than studying

ARC balances acknowledgement of disruptions with need to keep future funds flowing

Radical changes may be on cards after stock market crash and interest rate cuts, say experts

Research losses could be small but wider national epidemic control measures may prove a ‘once-in-a-century evidence fiasco’, according to experts

Researchers studying coronavirus-related attacks urge universities in Europe, North America and Australia to do more to protect Asian students

Cash injection will allow Australian university to ramp up manufacture at same time as vaccine is tested

As Pope Francis urges Catholic HE to change, the Holy See’s quality agency evaluates close to 300 ‘ecclesiastical faculties’ worldwide – with just four staff

Project delays, as universities and labs shut down, prompt grant flexibility – but levels of leniency vary

Students will also have the option of sitting an exam in September, as NUS says proposed methodology is ‘heartening’

Fallout from virus measures could hit poorest students hardest or be basis for advent of PQA, sector figures suggest

Imminent deadlines could hinder international student arrivals for coming academic year, say experts

Australian universities’ online flight continues, as government tightens noose on indoor gatherings

The influence of Denise Bradley, an ‘intellectually courageous’ policy powerhouse, was steeped in personal experience

Concerns raised over proposed UK open access rules that would require researchers to surrender copyright

As UK research laboratories close, research-intensive universities call for extra funds to cover cost of disruption to science

Pandemic may tip some institutions ‘over the edge’ financially, but others may be able to capitalise on increasing numbers of people ‘at home with a lot of extra time on their hands’

Exclusion of non-nationals could close the door to vital expertise, governments warned

UUK says students ‘should not lose out on opportunity to go to university’ after exams cancelled

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

Compromise needed to avert lost generation of university students, says Australian policy guru

Sex historian Kate Lister on her unusual sleeping habits, Victorian pornography and challenging the stigma of sex work

Independent steering group says new processes must stop penalising those it is supposed to help and restore confidence in the award

Tributes paid to ‘visionary researcher’ who won 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

More institutions desert on-campus programmes as government moves the goalposts

New objective to support university finances during Covid-19 crisis suggests a new path for England’s higher education regulator

Experts say institutions should allow students to delay start date and relax entry requirements

Campuses see economic woes mounting, but full assault on Covid-19 more urgent

Australia bends rules to marshal health resources as social distancing directives are intensified

Poor long-term support for too few laboratories hampers efforts to develop vaccines and therapies, say researchers

Latest data show about a quarter of universities now have a fifth of full-time academics classed as teaching only

Go remote now or later? That’s the question, as coronavirus threatens campus shutdowns

With the state’s governor imperilled, university bosses are hoping that a better year is on the horizon

Study is first to survey students’ views on how they are judged in the classroom 

Some members increasingly wary after 22 days of walkouts already this year, but many remain determined to win concessions from employers on pay and pensions

As labs shut, researchers in Milan fear losing months of work – and urge colleagues abroad to prepare now for similar restrictions

Wollongong and other Australian universities race towards fully online course delivery amid rapid escalation of coronavirus crisis

Sources of personal income may dry up as outbreak takes toll on sectors that employ many young people, expert says

People may be more motivated to pursue a STEM career by figures thought of as ‘persistent’ but not geniuses   

Critics say Australian tribunal finding confuses workload measures with performance ratings

As a global pandemic is declared, public health experts in universities have never been more visible. But do they think this episode will reshape perceptions of academia after the years of Trump and Brexit?

But budget bonanza will require ‘substantial expansion’ of R&D capacity in many regions

Hybrid model emerging, with lectures going online while campuses endeavour to maintain small group delivery

Director of new Kent centre sets out how British resources and researchers can contribute to Indigenous studies

How a young institution in a tiny Japanese city created the country’s first fully bilingual campus 

Decision by some institutions to end lectures and seminars prompts others to quickly follow suit 

Holistic sustainability concept meshes with ‘moral purpose’ of institution in Melbourne’s unfashionable west

Influential Portuguese MEP calls for rapid UK-EU agreement on Horizon Europe association

Many universities have begun to teach online amid concerns that traditional classes could spread the coronavirus. Yale-NUS lecturer Catherine Shea Sanger explains how it can be done quickly and effectively

Director notifies staff and students of ‘precautionary measure’ as Durham moves to end classroom teaching for remainder of term

But vice-chancellor says UK sector is at ‘tipping point’ of culture change 

The online provider’s entire catalogue will be available to campuses shut down because of virus

OfS decision to block loan access at Bloomsbury Institute over quality concerns was lawful, court says

Pressure mounting on big European sectors to suspend face-to-face teaching in response to coronavirus