Universities ‘afraid to get blacklisted’ by funders avoid China collaborations
US administrators wary of losing millions in government funding over risky China ties, scholars say
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Anthony Fauci’s vilification ‘deterring potential NIH leaders’
Hate campaign directed towards America’s chief pandemic scientist makes it harder to find permanent leader for world’s biggest research funder
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Why are we allowing faculty ‘whips’ to do university managers’ dirty work?
Senior faculty are trying to prove their worth by making the lives of others so unpleasant that they agree to leave. It is time to call them out, says Aymen Idris
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Universities ‘not good change agents’
Australia’s underwhelming success in making university enrolments more equitable underlines the need to ‘address schooling’, forum hears
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German postdoc reforms paused after outcry at research careers plan
Attempt to balance interests of employers and researchers pleases no one, and weekend Twitter storm forces the plan ‘back to the assembly hall’
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Former Greenwich v-c David Maguire to lead UEA
Veteran university president appointed to lead Norwich institution through ‘period of change’
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Announcing our new Arab University Rankings advisory board
The THEÂ Arab University Rankings advisory board launches with members from countries across the region
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Relief as Australia issues PhD visas
While scores of doctoral students have at long last received permission to travel Down Under, the waiting list is long
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Employability ‘mantra’ supplanting higher education’s ‘inner core’
Focus on jobs and commercialisation inconsistent with sector’s ‘intrinsic purposes’, says Simon Marginson
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Talking leadership: Michael S. Roth on handling campus conflict
President of ‘leftist hotbed’ Wesleyan University reflects on run-ins with students and controversial efforts to increase intellectual diversity
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A capital injection would protect the UK’s risky HE funding model
In the absence of domestic fee hikes and full-cost grants, world-class facilities will help maintain international student flows, says Ian Walmsley
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Rural students at Pakistan’s top university ‘locked out’ of dorms
Removal of students from dormitories has left many scrambling to afford lodging in city or return to rural homes, where online learning is ‘impossible’
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Scrapping BTECs will narrow access to English universities
T levels are an alternative to A levels, not to level 1-3 vocational courses. Students need both options, says Sam Parrett
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Free speech bill: universities need ‘clear conception’ of freedoms
Freedom of speech legislation may heighten conflicts over disciplinary boundaries but will give governing bodies ‘hugely influential’ role to set limits on acceptable views, says former watchdog head
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European cross-border collaboration must be more bottom-up
No policy initiative within research-intensive universities can be sustainable without researchers perceiving clear added value, says Sari Lindblom