Lab research is ‘individual’, but running the show means teamwork
Lauded bench scientist-turned-administrator Anne Kelso reflects on gender balance, ‘keeping it real’ and why she left her ‘happy place in the lab’
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Swiss referendum on population cap ‘puts science at risk’
Country to vote whether to restrict immigration if numbers continue to grow, potentially affecting international students and researchers
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New chatbot ‘outperforms PhDs on literature reviews’
Cheap research round-ups by ‘hallucination-free’ OpenScholar model preferred by experts, says Nature study
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Radenka Maric: foreign academics won’t give up on American dream
Bosnian-born president of University of Connecticut says her unusual academic career shows how US promotes outsiders like no other country
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Move beyond mentorship and ‘sponsor’ women in STEM, says scholar
Female researchers need ‘action’, not just ‘advice’, says high-flying scientist
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Ed Byrne: ‘Scholarly nirvana’ at KAUST offers lessons to the world
A year after joining the ‘MIT of the Middle East’, the former King’s College London president reflects on the need for scholars to align their research with national priorities and the joys of...
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‘Onerous’ four-year visas ‘would deter PhD students from US’
Forcing doctoral students to extend their visas after four years could lead them to look elsewhere, experts warn
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Leaders and academics must rebuild trust – or risk losing excellence
Threat of financial collapse is causing universities to double down on an officious management style that is sapping academic morale, undermining excellence and damaging collegiality between academia...
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Can universities unfreeze China’s graduate job market?
China’s post-pandemic economic slowdown is continuing to depress the graduate job market – and graduates themselves. But while the government looks to universities to address the malaise, many...
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My Oxford Year is wrong to normalise staff-student romances
Netflix’s university-set romcom is strangely silent about the ethics of college tutors sleeping with their students, says Robert Dingwall
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Svein Stølen: ‘Collaboration harder now but still a must’
Outgoing rector of University of Oslo says culture of openness changed into one dominated by national priorities during his eight years in charge of Norway’s top-ranked institution
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The UK’s immigration hall of mirrors is making me reflect on my future
If the UK doesn’t want skilled migrants any more, maybe my contributions would be better appreciated in the Global South, says Meron Wondemaghen
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Gender gap present from start of academic careers, study finds
Address early career ‘glass door’ as well as promotion glass ceiling, policymakers urged
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‘It’s hard to imagine anyone wanting to come to America given the news’
US-based researchers have dominated the Nobel prizes, but more than one-third of them were born abroad, drawn by the US’ world-leading research ecosystem. But many Nobel laureates fear that Donald...
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Chu: China ‘will blow us away’ if Trump destroys US universities
Without foreign research talent pouring into leading US institutions, America will fall further behind in tech race, says former US energy secretary Steven Chu