A university’s overseas revenue deal, and what sits behind it
Exeter has approved a partnership under which its academics will deliver a master’s degree at the National Defense University in Riyadh, in a move the Guardian reports could generate millions. Nothing changes for students in Exeter, but it is a clear example of what universities are doing to replace income lost as home fees stay frozen and international recruitment falls — and the kind of deal that draws objections from staff and students’ unions.
Is the pandemic still shaping the students arriving this year?
Three researchers ask whether the cohort starting university this autumn — whose schooling was disrupted at GCSE age — still arrives with the gaps that marked the intakes before it, and argue the effects show up in independent study and group work rather than in grades. Useful if you are starting and wondering why the step up feels steeper than anyone warned.
Moving back home for the summer, and moving enough
A piece on the transition from term-time independence back to a childhood bedroom, where the structure that held the days together disappears along with the people. The argument is for daily movement — a walk, not a training plan — as the thing that keeps the rest from sliding, and it is made without the usual wellness packaging. The same applies to the weeks between finishing a degree and starting anything else. Sport and fitness covers starting from nothing.