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Ministers’ eagerness to launch yet another review when so many others remain unpublished is testing the patience of universities, says Andrew McRae

Universities urged to take opportunity to modernise, as government’s next strategic plan set to boost research and technology

What does it say about our labour culture that a tenured professor stuck in an elevator did not even consider cancelling his class, asks Irina Dumitrescu

Those who make the loudest noises about equality can be among the most myopic about the evils of academic inbreeding, says Bruce Macfarlane

Greater Bay Area outposts offer more space, government funding and industry collaboration opportunities

UK minister Kemi Badenoch’s disavowal of the theory plays into a misleading right-wing narrative, says Hannah Robbins

The pandemic underlines the need for executives to be instilled with a more radical approach to sustainability, say Lars Moratis and Frans Melissen

Gambling studies expert puts extraordinary output down to collaboration and hard work

Digitising classes was the first part – the next challenge is to make materials engaging and personalised, experts say

Virologist Michael Houghton explains why we should be ‘a bit more patient’ for a coronavirus vaccine and how a 2:2 degree did not deter his scientific ambitions

Online courses should be easily adaptable to post-Covid circumstances – whatever they may be, says An Jacobs

Tackling bias by urging writers to avoid stereotypically female descriptors undervalues qualities such as cooperation and care, says Davina Cooper

Critics says that 60, or even 65, is too young to end an academic career

Yoshihide Suga’s rejection of appointees to the Science Council of Japan may be opening shot in ‘symbolic war’, says professor 

The government’s illogical restrictions deny the country a potential source of post-Brexit growth, argues Dylan Jones-Evans

Neoliberal administrators’ policing of institutional reputations and academic colleagues’ condemnation of dissenting voices on issues such as race and gender have led to claims that scholars are losing their ability to engage in free enquiry and open debate. But is academic freedom really the operative concept in the controversies that arise? John Ross probes a highly contested debate

Civilised adults should not have to demonstrate that they can stand up to bullying before being offered a job, says an anonymous academic 

Stanford University professors whose ideas have been used for multibillion-dollar telecoms auctions take this year’s award

Threats to environment too great to leave education to scientists alone, says Harvard professor Fernando Reimers

Award for French researcher Emmanuelle Charpentier and US biochemist Jennifer Doudna is the first double win for female chemists

British researcher Michael Houghton and US-born Harvey Alter and Charles Rice honoured for “seminal discoveries” connected to novel virus

Those temporarily plucked from the academic ranks would have no motivation or ability to wreak havoc and then move on, argues Bruce Krajewski

Lecturers are being denied the flexibility they are compelled to offer students, despite being more vulnerable to the virus, says an anonymous academic

Publications must always permit debate on the quality and relevance of research – plus the efficacy and costs of derived policy, says Robert Dingwall

Recent attacks on high-profile scholars by government and by a university executive should give us pause, say Christopher Vaughan and Daniel Ncayiyana

The professor of communication and media and author of The Politicization of Mumsnet discusses social media’s good and bad, debates over gender and feminism, and Val McDermid’s Scotland

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

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

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

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

A large ongoing survey at King’s College London is informing the institution’s approach to Covid-19, say Gabriella Bergin-Cartwright and Sharon Stevelink

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

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

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

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

Corporate leaders are uninterested in academic research but do respond when told there is a better way to conduct their business, says Oliver Sibony

The grand achievements of those who came before are often held up as inspiration for current members of the academy, but a more nuanced view might be required

Experts point to a variety of reasons for continuing digitally even as Covid cases fall 

To deflect political attacks, universities should emphasise the transformative effects of engaging with structured bodies of knowledge, says Paul Ashwin

Experts stress quick, consistent and centralised approaches, plus extra support for students and IT systems, during webinar

Tributes paid to a ‘sparkling intellect’ celebrated for his radio talks and books on language

Many students believe that if their instructors did not want them to cheat, they would not make it so easy, say three academics

Oxford epidemiologist and lockdown critic says ‘puritanical’ criticism of idea of herd immunity has chilled legitimate scientific and policy debate

Expert calls for equal treatment of aspiring doctors, whether they are educated abroad or at home

Education minister Ingrid van Engelshoven says too much research funding is now competitive, leading to intense work stress

Following the BethAnn McLaughlin and Jessica Krug revelations, Rachel Moss offers her tips for spotting online fakers

With infection rates increasing and online teaching well established, why risk everyone’s health by reopening, asks Richard Watermeyer 

The shielding of the academic workplace from all risk of Covid-19 is not a safe or sane position, says Robert Poole

Other Japanese institutions expected to follow suit as government funding dwindles  

The increasing social status of the ‘highly credentialed’ risks breeding populist resentment, according to renowned political philosopher

Actions by publishers could contribute to Chinese students having more one-sided views, economist tells THE

Tributes paid to ‘a towering figure in the field of medieval studies’

Dismissing plagiarism as a low-level academic misdemeanour ignores the potentially deadly consequences of letting cheating go unchecked, says David A. Sanders

Online restrictions, which mirror existing rules for in-person events, raise academic freedom concerns

Set up by young researchers, new publication will highlight where studies went wrong – but it may struggle to attract submissions

Government issues arrest warrants for students and files complaint against an overseas academic as protests, some held on university campuses, intensify 

Advocates for virtual labs finding chance to show cost and equity benefits of online experimentation

Chinese academics coming home from overseas should be seen as a source of new ideas, not sidelined, study says

Universities and their values have been hugely successful in forging a central place for themselves at the heart of the information age. David John Frank and John W. Meyer consider how and why the pandemic might be putting that at risk