Coronavirus

The Monash University president discusses how to make international campuses work and redundancies during the pandemic 

Some students have not been able to leave country for more than two years, including long confinements on campus

Student protests ‘historically have ominous portents’ for country, scholar warns

New strategy looks outward as well as inward, as government vows to ‘come back even stronger than before’

South American universities catching up with rest of the world on homeworking practices, according to THE data

Country’s universities have ‘a lot of catching up to do’ despite two-month reprieve

Extent of staffing overhauls bore little relationship to Covid’s financial carnage, says report

Special intake should be at least doubled, vice-chancellor says

Academic who has become a lightning rod for criticism over her pandemic advice reflects on two years in the eye of the Covid storm

Ombudsman says difficulties finding alternative remedies during pandemic partly to blame for £1.3 million bill

Flows not robust enough to alter ‘slight negative outlook’ on institutional finances

Concerns raised about impact of lengthy restrictions, with institutions further afield facing questions, too

Amid election-year debate on college costs, Biden extends pause on federal loan repayments and wipes away records of past defaults

Only a handful of UK universities maximised their public profiles during the pandemic because press officers were diverted towards internal crises or social media engagement, says Fiona Fox

But positive results owe much to temporary government and stock market lifelines, according to early institutional accounts

New Zealand now perceived poorly on factors where it used to excel, survey finds

Ostensibly family-friendly work arrangements assumed to benefit women can have the opposite effect, a study of academics’ lockdown experiences suggests

Senior officer dismissed because of cluster of cases at university in Jilin

Universities will be told what approaches to online education fail to meet Office for Students' requirements as government pushes for return to face-to-face education

Universities should avoid rushed assumptions about Covid’s financial impacts and its effects on study plans, survey suggests

Slump in applications to country’s biggest tertiary admissions centre aligns with anecdotal reports that universities are struggling to find students

Scholars optimistic despite 490,000 learners still waiting to enter country, with recent survey showing 53 per cent struggle with ‘serious mental health issues’

Returning numbers underwhelming so far as isolated state casts off its shackles

Back-to-campus plans hit snags on both sides of the Tasman

It’s a balancing act, as some crave company and others isolation, but most vice-chancellors want their people back ‘as often as possible’

Belated data show that inexperienced, untenured and non-academic staff shouldered the lion’s share of job losses

While 5,000 students could arrive in April, the rest will not be admitted until October, effectively ruling out campus-based studies before 2023

Fifth of respondents to major global survey said universities were ‘unimportant’ in fight against Covid-19

No apparent health rationale for ‘impossible’ new deadline, as requirements rewritten for third time in a week

Two separate studies, including one that looked at early Covid papers, suggest majority of alterations are minimal

Academics nervous as most universities plan to maximise on-campus delivery amid record Covid death toll

Two years of low-quality online provision has left one stranded international student homeless, unemployed and heartbroken

But new recruits and direct arrivals miss out under new Western Australian rules

Undergraduates complain of poor attendance in online classes and cheating in examinations

Classroom skills that previously came naturally to lecturers and students can become very rusty in the online environment, says Christopher Hallenbrook 

Western Australia defers return of quarantine-free travel in response to Omicron variant as eastern states open up

Government cracks open door for select few, but thousands still stuck overseas

Tardy response to UKRI request meant greenlit research projects on pandemic could not begin, investigation concludes

English universities should ‘deliver face-to-face teaching without restrictions’, says Department for Education

Soon-to-retire septuagenarian tells students to keep their distance amid Covid-19 surge, saying he ‘couldn’t give a flying fuck any longer’

Delayed roll-out of booster jabs among UK’s younger population means thousands of students will be at risk of serious infection, say researchers

Higher education must double down on the liberal education values of interdisciplinarity, experiential learning and critical thinking, says Eric Skipper

Union updates guidance to branches that also calls for ‘high quality’ face masks to be made available to staff

Once a conservative rallying cry, calls to ease protections spread in academia as fast-moving Omicron variant appears less threatening

The pandemic has demonstrated that there are broad deficiencies in quantitative reasoning skills even within the academy, says David Sanders

Students collaborate to combat food shortages, as Covid widens the gap between Australia’s haves and have-nots

Outside a few elite institutions promising online formats for the coming semester, campus health experts fear monetary strains may overpower medical judgement

Omicron variant amplifying uncertainties, but initial indications suggest federal relief and economic growth may permit another year of post-secondary gains

As Cornell and others close, dozens of institutions seize on court order ending federal immunisation requirement

MPs investigate role of journal publication in the early stages of the pandemic

Dirk Brockmann, branded a ‘lockdown maker’ by Bild, says scientists must make clear the uncertainty in their advice

Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirms 15 December date for return of overseas learners

Government guidance wants face-to-face teaching, but university concerned about students getting stuck on campus

Mandates the least worst option, as vice-chancellors await ‘the inevitable court cases’

UK union says continuing face-to-face tuition puts staff and students in ‘unnecessary danger’

Ending in-person conferences during Covid tied to substantial gains in equity, sustainability and inclusiveness, US team finds in broad data analysis

Oxford reports 33 per cent increase in Covid-19 cases in a week, with many of them the new variant

English universities should not switch to online teaching despite Omicron fears, says government

Learners enrolled with Western universities gather in China’s tourism hotspots

Even with in-person limits easing, large numbers of students struggle to re-establish pre-pandemic norms, data show