From virologists seeking a vaccine and engineers creating ventilators in record time to student nurses on the NHS frontline, the coronavirus crisis has shown the very best of what UK higher education can offer. Now it is the turn of business schools to prove their value. With the world entering the deepest recession in living […] … learn more→

Public schools have faced three distinct challenges since the coronavirus pandemic began – scrambling to make sure that low-income children don’t go hungry, teaching students remotely who lack internet access and bracing for dramatically smaller budgets. Congress tried to help in the US$2 trillion economic relief package known as the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security, or CARES Act, by […] … learn more→

The decision whether to use a freelance SEO expert or an internet marketing company which offers SEO as one of its services is more than deciding who is has more experience or knowledge. The bottom line is that you want your business to be first when potential clients are searching Google for the services you […] … learn more→

After the communication by the Spanish authorities of the ” Plan of transition to the new normality” , the beginning of a process of de-escalation in the educational field is proposed with the partial return to classrooms of, among others, children from 0 to 6 years. After a period of confinement caused by the COVID-19 health crisis, […] … learn more→

The National Tertiary Education Union this week struck an agreement with universities that no ongoing university staff member would be stood down involuntarily without pay. This deal is contingent on staff above a certain pay grade taking a cut of up to 15% of their salary. It’s still uncertain how many universities will sign up to the […] … learn more→

In the past, pills, powders, as well as shakes for muscle building and boosting energy levels were a preserve for professional bodybuilders. However, things are changing. Nowadays, anybody can invest in these bodybuilding products and become fit. You can take supplements and build that extra stamina. If you want to be built, you can purchase […] … learn more→

Digital technologies have not returned genealogy to the obsolete leisure department, on the contrary. This practice is now experiencing a resurgence of interest to the point that specialized software is available to carry out its family tree and that we speak of “geneanauts”, to designate those who navigate on the web in search of traces of […] … learn more→

At Troy University in Alabama, students went online to help a county with a high infant mortality rate in the state of Georgia to analyze health disparities and develop solutions. At Cornell University, where I teach, law students are providing legal services online to death-row inmates in Tanzania  and children and young farmworkers in upstate New York. At […] … learn more→

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, we are being told that higher education will never be the same again. Many commentators are predicting dramatic, lasting effects on universities, going well beyond what we actually know about the immediate impact of Covid-19 on international student recruitment for the next academic year. The virus has inspired […] … learn more→

There’s a looming economic crisis in higher education. Perhaps you have lost work already and you’re wondering how you will support yourself (I’m really sorry). It’s hard to know if you’ll get more or less teaching next semester and what form it will take. Will it be online? Or face to face? Maybe your courses […] … learn more→