US campuses counting hundreds of new virus infections
With students just arriving, institutions quickly find parties and outbreaks
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UNC ends in-person classes after coronavirus outbreaks
After students gather to party, campus moves to online one week into semester
Can Germany’s renowned vocational education system be exported?
English ministers advised to start looking at key features like partnership with employers rather than using German system as ‘trademark’
Germany opts to keep teaching online to avoid spreading Covid
Denmark and Switzerland holding more in-person classes
Returning Chinese scholars ‘marginalised’ at home and internationally
Chinese academics coming home from abroad should be seen as a source of new ideas, not sidelined, study says
Thai protest movement a test for academic freedom
Government issues arrest warrants for students and files complaint against an overseas academic as protests, some held on university campuses, intensify
‘Book a scientist’: academics find a new way to engage public
German researchers let members of the public fire questions at them in 20-minute slots, and the result is a deep, albeit narrow, form of science communication
‘Journal of Trial and Error’ seeks to normalise research failure
Set up by young researchers, new publication will highlight where studies went wrong – but it may struggle to attract submissions
Opening UK PhD funding to international students ‘a big shift’
Experts see move to allow applicants from beyond Europe to apply for UKRI funding as a key plank of the UK’s post-Brexit research base
English universities lobby for bailout after A-levels fiasco
UUK and MillionPlus make call via task force amid fears some universities could lose hundreds of students each after lifting of number controls
