Category: Universities
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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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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Stormy times for international student mobility
International higher education faces a decade of uncertainty with the predicted rise in student mobility at risk as young people become increasingly worried about climate change
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TNE offers UK universities a post-Brexit “silver lining”
Clear evidence is emerging that UK universities are succeeding in increasing their engagement with countries in the European Union in preparation for Brexit.
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Tackling the attainment gap for BAME students at top unis
Students from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are under-represented at elite...
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