Category: Featured
Brexit brinkmanship baffles the Euro experts
Nic Mitchell unravels the new row preventing the UK and EU securing a trade deal and says why he hopes the two sides can achieve peaceful coexistence
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Can universities reopen safely after Covid-19?
The media seized on UCU leader Jo Grady’s claim that universities risked becoming the “care homes of the second wave” of the virus.
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Mixed messages about reopening campuses safely
Mixed messages are coming out of universities in the Western world as they struggle to overcome uncertainty about the safe reopening of campuses after months of COVID-19 lockdowns
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Excellent research demands excellent engagement
Why three top European scientists have won accolades from the European Research Council for becoming creative communicators
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Putting bounce back in UK global higher education
Former Universities Minister Jo Johnson and brother of the British Prime Minister has made a radical call to scrap much of the Conservative Party’s approach to international higher education for the last decade.
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A-level Students feel ‘abandoned until mid-August’
A new report highlights the anger and confusion of young people preparing for university this autumn who must wait until 13 August to get their A-level grades despite their exams being cancelled
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Support international students through COVID-19
International students face extra pressures being caught between COVID-19 and the UK immigration system, say Luna Williams and Paul McShane in our guest blog from the Immigration Advice Service
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Not so easy for many to slip into online learning
As students struggle with courses going online due to COVID-19, many feel it’s time for a radical rethink about the future direction of global education
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Will students want to study abroad after COVID19?
With falling demand from international students for studying abroad, Nic Mitchell looks at how to make sense of what prospective students are thinking.
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Crystallising what universities are really for!
One the many spinoffs of the coronavirus is crystallising what universities are really for, according to the Chief Scientific Officer at the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Coronavirus may end Uni high flying addiction
The coronavirus crisis offers global universities a real chance to get to grips with their addiction to flying staff around the world to encourage other people to fly, says an Australian-based climate change activist.
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Lessons in self-isolation during coronavirus
Nic Mitchell offers some advice on coping with self-isolation from his year fighting cancer
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