Coronavirus

Lockdowns decimated the part-time jobs on which French students relied, and debate is now under way over how to fix ‘broken’ system of state support

Covid safety almost a liability as Australia and New Zealand relegated as ‘spectators’ rather than participants in international education recovery

Eric Chabriere’s attacks against critics of hydroxychloroquine are seen as a sign of the social-media-induced radicalisation that has occurred during the pandemic

But poll finds opinion fairly evenly divided among general population

Losses far worse than they appear on paper, v-c warns, as institution reels from plunging investment and international income

Universities fear ‘emergency brake’ will halt essential medical training and lab work, but in the Netherlands, Denmark and Portugal campuses are reopening

Attacks on the disciplines are ‘source of alarm’, as they are central to employability in teaching ‘how narratives fool us’, THE event hears

Boris Johnson ‘completely wrong’ about vaccine success, while UK industrial strategy vacillation ‘reeks of insecurity’, innovation expert tells THE summit

Universities UK and GuildHE say ‘unintended consequence’ of pandemic was less time for socialising, more time for studying

Video platform made powerful by pandemic agrees to largely let universities police content

US and Israeli institutions lead way on demanding immunisation but leading epidemiologist questions added value of ‘green pass’

Covid-19 has prompted an explosion in preprints but has curtailed networking and underlined the extra pressures on women and junior academics. Simon Baker asks whether the pandemic era is a dark blip or a bright new dawn

While concern has centred on vulnerable flows from China, an Indian exodus could prove more devastating

As UK campuses reopen, security staff are hard pressed policing social distancing and delivering toilet rolls to isolating students, says George Bass

Government refusal to allow more face-to-face teaching driven by Treasury fears of derailing indoor hospitality reopening, sector sources suggest

Allowing tattoo parlours and drive-in cinemas to reopen before universities illustrates how students have been ignored during the pandemic, says Olivia Winnifrith

Foreign students, mostly from Asia, ‘will simply go elsewhere’ if Biden doesn’t act soon

Australian university shrugs off Covid’s financial wrecking ball and even manages to bolster its insurance against future ‘shocks’

Nearby communities are the priority – but impact is maximised via universities’ crucial global networks, says Dawn Freshwater

Research is for public benefit. The UK’s next deal with Elsevier must accelerate the abolition of journal paywalls, says Paul Boyle

Long-term public and economic health depends on empowering universities, businesses and health systems to work together, says Michael Spence

Complaints about essay mills peaked as online delivery concerns subsided, regulator’s report says

Organisation writes to Boris Johnson asking why shops and gyms can reopen but 1 million students can’t return

First institutional accounts reveal mixed results, with many institutions weathering the Covid storm but some plunging into deficit

A strategic rejection of digital instruction is akin to France’s short-sighted attempt to prevent invasion in the 1930s, says Robert Zaretsky

Government has promised to provide update on plan for return of all students in England by end of Easter holidays

A writing group has become a vital support network for female academics facing everything the pandemic can throw at them, says Sorcha MacLeod

‘Extremely careful’ attitude reflects scepticism over vaccine roll-out, but also unexpected success of forced switch to online learning

Many undergraduates not expecting face-to-face tuition before summer, even though majority are at term-time addresses

Significant share of students say they would be more likely to get vaccine if they could do so on campus, but research reveals wide differences by ethnicity

Embassy closures, visa delays and travel restrictions contribute to ‘really worrying’ applications data

Minister’s suggestion, which has a troubled history, among several medium-term ideas to revive international education

More pain in store for Australian universities, as bankruptcy beckons the colleges and agencies that scaffold their international operations

Move seen as popular among students and likely to be replicated elsewhere

Universities UK and Russell Group push for all students to return from 12 April amid concern that it could be pushed back to mid-May

Rich accounts of how we screamed at the television, went swimming and adapted to the ‘surrealness’ of life during a pandemic fill a new archive

Universities need to take account of the pandemic’s effect on productivity – especially that of women, says Jessica Borger

The pandemic has exposed the limits that commercial models impose on libraries’ ability to facilitate access, says Gauthier Van Malderen

Lift your game, minister tells Covid-struck universities, as students mark institutions down on engagement

Amid the economic ravages inflicted by the coronavirus, the EU has agreed a huge stimulus package. But while research in some countries looks set for a transformational boost, it may be a different story for teaching

Japanese and Korean schools struggle to recruit as border restrictions continue

Chinese students becoming more supportive of authoritarian government during time in liberal democracy

Critics say university lent undue weight to analysis that was not peer-reviewed, but some worry scientists have shied away from fully investigating hypothesis

University of Colorado study suggests low risk from most infected people, even room-mates

A year since face-to-face academic conferences were cancelled, Jack Grove hears from scholars on their mixed experiences of digital events

Students’ gravitation towards communal living may be exactly the insight we need to solve the stubborn problems of remote learning, says Carlo Ratti

Netherlands government’s package of support for students and universities comes as calls for fee refunds mount in England

All faculty endure mounting stress over online instruction, but BAME academics face an even more precarious situation, say Henrika McCoy and Madeline Y. Lee

Self-reporting of performance is notoriously unreliable and, more significantly, satisfaction is distinct from well-being, says Stephen Wood

Trusting in the continuing power of prestige to open employers’ doors is a dangerous strategy, say Alejandro Caballero and Sean Gallagher

The pandemic may be goading Australia’s stay-at-home students to look further afield for their education, although some of them may ultimately decide to stay put

Measure doubles previous support and sets stage for student loan cancellations

Unions continue to resist idea of expanding face-to-face tuition further this year

Educational link ‘as bad as it has ever been’, with billions of dollars at stake for universities

Time extensions on tenure may be among wrong cures, US National Academies assessment suggests

Two-thirds of UK students say well-being has worsened since start of term, ONS reports

Digitisation opens up a world of possibility but it doesn’t compensate for the loss of physical interaction, says Mark Griffin

We want commercial success but can’t build it on an empty research larder, university lobby tells Canberra

Recession-driven domestic surge more than compensates for loss of international students at some institutions Down Under

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