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The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Natural Environment Research Council defends decision to award fellowships entirely to men in 2019, but will review diversity processes

As Australia pivots to local concerns, university leaders flag importance of international students beyond just their fees 

Watchdog report comes as president seeks to make political issue of campus intolerance

Minister warns that indecision over reforms could ‘sacrifice’ opportunity to reform sector during Covid

Academics also cite immigration policies and ‘dwindling’ funding as reasons why position in country is no longer ‘holy grail’

Internal Market Bill brings warnings that Horizon Europe deal will be near impossible if UK and EU are ‘embittered’ by trade talks failure

Overall trust in scientists higher than in governments, media and business, global survey finds

Gavin Williamson also says students should not be subject to additional lockdown measures

PM heralds moves to create Lifetime Skills Guarantee and to open loans system to FE colleges so they can ‘compete’ with universities

Parliaments routinely seek scientific advice, but a Dutch pilot goes one step further, asking academics to directly critique what the government is proposing

Number crunching based on new research classifications helps pinpoint strengths and failings

Decision to press ahead but not require promotion from universities could lead to ‘patchy’ year of data and damage to survey’s integrity

Regulator intervenes as some institutions suspend in-person teaching

Proposal nearing implementation also lets visa agency assess academic progress

Government should ‘pump in’ more resources for online infrastructure to address inequality, expert says

Pandemic forces institutions to respond to practical challenges but also to produce work that addresses crisis and helps forge new forms of art

Tide of rebrands is evidence of intensifying competition and subject profile shifts in sector where status matters, say experts

Humanities scholars play a crucial role in communicating with the public during Covid

Experts lament â€˜death by a thousand cuts’ amid fears Covid redundancy schemes could finish off pared back programmes

Chemical engineers at Imperial College London have developed an innovative way of teaching real-world experiments at a distance, and say it also improves learning outcomes

Despite numerous announcements by the University of British Columbia, indigenous leaders see big talk from a big institution, but no clearer answers on finding balance

LSHTM director thinks communications failures explain why US and UK trail Vietnam and Senegal on pandemic responses 

Reform package hinges on two independent votes, after cross-party committee offered unconvincing endorsement

Australian university to proceed with disputed staff cuts but introduce element of choice

Institutions and teachers find workarounds to reach students enrolled in Western courses, but domestic internet rules still constrain efforts

Number of campus-related infections, which was calculated using mobile phone records, has been estimated by researchers at 3,200 per day

The country would not cancel the visas of Chinese academics without good reason, says banned Australian academic Clive Hamilton

Initial data from around a fifth of all US institutions suggest impact of pandemic may not be as severe as feared

University president says C$250 million donation is ‘a tremendous shot in the arm’ and shows that donors are still willing to give during the pandemic

Meanwhile, Scottish students in halls and flats are already forbidden from returning to parents’ homes

In a new book, female scholars share their experiences of gender and racial bias

Largely symbolic move comes amid worsening diplomatic ties and after Australia revoked Chinese scholars’ visas

Latest voting survey from Hepi/YouthSight sees similar – but more amplified – changes compared with recent wider population polling 

Nancy Rothwell tells THE its universities are ‘worried about building the research base’ amid ‘complete uncertainty’ on overseas recruitment during pandemic

Labour peer and scientist also worries that ‘moonshot’ ambitions for 10 million tests a day is setting up science to fail

But universities will not be required to promote the survey to students  

Jean-Eric Paquet warns that on open data, research collaboration and academic mobility, EU-China links are not always reciprocal

‘Top down’ antipathy feeds broader experience of discrimination, student representatives warn

Universities told that emphasis on tackling pandemic, climate change and digital transformation may require ‘reshuffling of money’

NSW minister predicts early resumption of student flows, as states and territories develop plans for flights and quarantine

Pilot scheme to promote diversity in doctoral study will also include anonymisation of applications

University scientists prove nimble, but still wish for government allies

Study says findings are ‘concrete evidence to support concerns about racist and sexist misappropriation of research’

Despite challenging bilateral ties, former Australian foreign ministers say enrolments may prove resilient

The global recession triggered by Covid-19 is already ‘more challenging’ in Europe than the 2008 financial crash, warns EUA policy expert  

Paper finds there is no correlation between perceived good looks and teaching effectiveness among male scholars

Leading human rights barrister calls on UK law schools to address ethnic minority under-representation among academic teaching staff

Universities in Lebanese capital focus on student funding and retaining staff after explosion, but leaders say future of sector will depend on make-up of new government 

Head of UK Research & Innovation will urge scientists to help shed public view that research is an ‘elite and alien world inhabited by boffins’

Covid-19 has elevated the already considerable cyber risks universities face from without and within, Australian consultants warn

Land swap paves way for new high-rise campus, as sprawl gives way to borderless city vibe

But far-right voters view the failure to reproduce results as reason not to trust science as a whole, unique survey data from Germany show

Experts say move against extending free tuition beyond freshers reflects underlying flaws in reform

Hopes are high for a new university in Georgia after it signed a partnership deal with Technical University of Munich

Editor of new collection showcases neglected major female thinkers going all the way back to ancient Greece and ancient China

Legal proceedings over LED light bulbs could pave the way for more universities to claim royalties âˆ’ and illuminates venture capital firms as potential allies

Principal asks students to stay in their rooms as much as possible from 7pm Friday evening

Psychologist says scholars are still in ‘emergency’ mode and universities should recognise that the year ahead ‘may not be brilliant’ in terms of teaching quality

Female deficit seen at medRxiv more than doubles in first months of pandemic