Royal Statistical Society president Sylvia Richardson says pandemic has sparked huge interest in the discipline and highlighted body’s vital public role
Rites of passage failed to launch this year, from sex to graduation. We have a moral duty to help students find meaning in their lives, says Bertus Jeronimus
Survey for regulator finds teaching staff more likely to lack access to right technology and support compared with students, and are less confident in their skills
The University of Groningen’s response to the pandemic has been widely lauded. Key to it was taking teachers and students seriously from the start, says Klaas van Veen
Trauma suffered by lecturers who were forced to teach in-person during coronavirus spike should not be dismissed, say Paul Hanna, Carl Walker and Mark Erickson
No institution will be able to make it alone amid the pandemic-induced tumult, so let’s make shared values the antidote to the crisis, says Ferruccio Resta
Due to the 2008 global financial crisis, a long shadow loomed over me and my cohort. Over the medium term, though, most of us made it, says Lucas Lixinski
Experts voice caution on prospect of quick bounceback in UK overseas recruitment post-Covid, highlighting issues around affordability and changing competitive landscape
Many institutions may find it challenging to translate the crisis experience into an immediate enhancement of teaching and learning, says Michael Gaebel
Universities’ wariness of online instruction was suddenly swept aside last year by Covid-19. But how successful has the overnight digital transition been? Is it sustainable? And should it be? Paul Jump runs through the results of our major survey of university staff
Encouraging pandemic-hit graduates to continue their studies will only delay problems unless universities embrace student employability, says Sabrina Wang
Continuous professional development must become an integral part of the academic career path, not a mere ‘extracurricular’ endeavour, says Alexandra Mihai
With scientists forced to work from home, many now conduct experiments from a distance, and the continent’s biggest research facilities think this change is here to stay
Forthcoming policies on ‘low-value courses’ and grade inflation must acknowledge how pandemic will hit graduate prospects and undergraduate preparedness for years to come, says QAA deputy chief executive Vicki Stott
University Hospital Institute Méditerranée Infection, under leadership of ‘populist’ microbiologist Didier Raoult, continues to push hydroxychloroquine in the face of evidence
