The Great China Lockdown Novel:
The Psychological Effects of Lockdown in China
Covid-19 and Humanities Research
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/what-can-humanities-offer-covid-era
CASUALISING ACADEMICS: the new buzz phrase for the future of academic life
As more and more universities and colleges try and cope with the fallout from the Coronavirus Pandemic, lecturers and junior staff fear for their academic futures. While universities are eager to get more and more high achieving PhD and research students into their departments, very often the lecturers that teach and inspire them are slowly being shown the back door.
A recent OECD report asks universities not to “casuals” academics:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/dont-casualise-academics-says-oecd
Prestigious Art College Closes in Hong Kong
One wonders how this is related to the pandemic. Colleges and universities with huge deficits like Savannah College must be wondering whether it is viable to maintain large physical campuses with exorbitant rents.
Students shocked as prestigious art college SCAD closes Hong Kong campus
State Universities in California prepare for another online term:
PLANS OF US UNIVERSITIES FOR THE NEW TERM:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Here-s-a-List-of-Colleges-/248626
After COVID-19 will students come back?
Half of UK University Workers nn temporary contracts:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/apr/02/lecturers-went-on-strike-over-insecure-jobs-now-we-fear-coronavirus-cuts
COVID 19 could result on higher student numbers at Universities:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/covid-19-could-be-curse-graduates-boon-universities
The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists’ representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality.
Academic Barbarism 