MEP: ‘symbolic’ budget cut ‘defunds 50 potential Nobel winners’
European finance ministers told to abandon ‘absurd’ plan to shift unspent Horizon funding elsewhere in their squeezed 2023 budget
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Universities circle as Anthony Fauci plans next career move
Nation’s top doctor, a celebrity after Covid, says he’d like a campus posting to write, lecture and share 60 years of experience
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Paying gas bills with reserves ‘risks punishing good management’
French ministry wants universities to use unallocated funds to cover up to 500Â per cent increases in energy costs
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Deborah Prentice: Cambridge’s ‘pragmatic’ psychologist-in-chief
Princeton ‘lifer’ moves to Cambridge without ever totally shaking off her outsider status
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Universities want better, but bullying won’t get them there
A recent email by a UK vice-chancellor is a case study in how not to inspire people to go beyond the call of duty, say two management scholars
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Jenkyns’ ‘Harry Potter studies’ jibe at universities ‘appalling’
Claim universities feed students ‘anti-British history’ was ‘cheap wisecrack’ when ‘mature debate’ needed, says ex-No 10 adviser
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Quantum scientists win Nobel Prize in Physics
Research by Nobel laureates is now being used for encrypted communications, says Nobel Prize committee
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UK sector agencies Jisc and Hesa complete merger
Union achieves key aim of 2017 Bell review of sector organisations
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Debate stonewalled as speakers desert ‘trans-exclusionary’ forum
Advocates abandon Melbourne seminar over Australia’s answer to Diversity Champions Programme, citing presence of opponents
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Can Japan’s ¥10 trillion excellence drive transform its research?
Scholars warn that Tokyo’s cash injection will reward the few over the many, pushing top institutions closer to industry at the expense of basic research, social sciences and humanities
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Underfunding basic research is a recipe for disaster
Entrepreneurs are the new kings, but academics doing basic research are key to our future – and they need proper funding, says Brian Schmidt
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Talking Leadership 44: Alice Gast on championing ‘risk-taking’ foreign students
Compelling stories of how foreign-born founders drive economic prosperity are more likely to convince policymakers about the need to embrace overseas students, says Alice Gast, who recently stepped...
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Retraction of masturbation study ‘troubling for free speech’
New York-based manga comic expert claims withdrawal of Karl Andersson’s controversial paper may ‘stifle innovation and scholarship’ in future
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Aid-setting exemption ends for top US universities
As legal challenge gains, Congress avoids renewing provision seen letting elite campuses tie financial offers to student ability to pay
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Reactionary lecturers ‘emboldened’ by incoming Italian government
But political scientists and politician-scientist say the country’s rightward shift poses ‘no risk’ to academic freedom or international recruitment