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Decision to press ahead but not require promotion from universities could lead to ‘patchy’ year of data and damage to survey’s integrity

Regulator intervenes as some institutions suspend in-person teaching

Chemical engineers at Imperial College London have developed an innovative way of teaching real-world experiments at a distance, and say it also improves learning outcomes

The pandemic’s demolition of barriers and bureaucracy clears the way for a better higher education sector, says Pat Tissington 

It makes no sense to oblige students to risk their own and others’ health by travelling long distances and converging on campus, says Brian Wong

LSHTM director thinks communications failures explain why US and UK trail Vietnam and Senegal on pandemic responses 

After 20 years working as a quantity surveyor, Tom Woodbury shares his key discoveries since starting his first academic role in May

Meanwhile, Scottish students in halls and flats are already forbidden from returning to parents’ homes

Nancy Rothwell tells THE its universities are ‘worried about building the research base’ amid ‘complete uncertainty’ on overseas recruitment during pandemic

History reminds us that freedom of speech also implies the right to vocally object to and demonstrate against speakers, says Evan Smith

Labour peer and scientist also worries that ‘moonshot’ ambitions for 10 million tests a day is setting up science to fail

But universities will not be required to promote the survey to students