Category: Universities
Why not quarantine and vaccinate students on campus?
Nic Mitchell asks why not vaccinate international students at the same time they are forced to quarantine and why not have the self-isolation on campus rather than in an airport hotel?
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Turing versus Erasmus+ row moves mobility up the agenda
Will the UK’s Turning scheme be any better at getting UK students to go on study or work placements abroad than Erasmus+?
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Top unis for digital transformation found globally
Look beyond the US and Europe for the best universities in handling the digital transformation during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Fly over Europe with UK international HE strategy
Has UK higher education got its international strategy right for the world, including building a new relationship with Europe, post-Brexit and post-Covid?
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A disaster or a new dawn for UK student mobility?
As the UK pulls out of Erasmus+, Nic Mitchell explores whether it is a disaster or a new dawn for British international student mobility.
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Bologna UK lifeline to European higher education
The Bologna Process offers UK universities a lifeline to the European Higher Education Area and another way to remain international after Brexit
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Immigration rules and curricula fan inequality
Finding solutions to racial hatred should start with education, but let’s first start to tackle racial imbalance in academia and the curricula
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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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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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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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