higher education, Covid and the debt burden
At the end of November, three weeks after her last exam and one week after she got her results, Maddison Sklenar found out the course she was doing might no longer exist. It was the start of the summer break. Sklenar, 23, had just finished the second year of a...
Huddersfield University’s Bahrain degree ‘providing torture hub with legitimacy’ | Higher education
Forty cross-party MPs and peers have urged the University of Huddersfield to close a master’s course it runs at the Royal Academy of Policing in Bahrain, after allegations that political dissidents were being tortured in the same building. The MPs, led by Ian...
Michael Lewis reveals next book, The Premonition, will be about coronavirus
© Photograph: Richard Saker/The Observer ‘Quarantined with my characters’ … Michael Lewis. Michael Lewis, author of bestsellers including The Big Short and Liar’s , is taking on a topic perhaps even more corrosive than Wall Street: coronavirus. The author is currently...
Country diary: from moss to the moon, this creature can survive anywhere | Plants
Until I watched Star Trek: Discovery in this latest lockdown, I’d never heard of a tardigrade. But when I learned that the super-sized, space-travelling monster on screen was inspired by a real-life micro-animal, I had to see one in the flesh. There are over 1,000...