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Making findings open source may enable certain companies and countries to corner the vaccine market, warn Virginia Driver and Tom Woodhouse

Andrew Norton tells THE webinar that researchers on priority projects could be cut in coronavirus lay-offs while those doing less vital work are spared

US-China research collaborations will continue despite politics, Harvard economist says 

Tributes paid to a ‘steely’ dean of undergraduates who helped forge a new generation of leaders

Schools of government have traditionally employed a technocratic approach to preparing public officials. But with polarisation straining political systems to breaking point, Paul Basken reports on calls in the US for more aggressive approaches, while Karthik Ramanna sets out how his Oxford programme attempts to repair the fractures

Deleted posts, suspensions and investigations are part of a larger trend of control that predated the pandemic, experts say

Apart from the ecological degradation, the conference circuit is riven by socio-economic, class, race and gender divides, say Ambreena Manji and three others

UK research will become more interdisciplinary and community-focused in wake of pandemic, academic leaders tell THE event

World’s biggest academic publisher signs ‘global first’ open science agreement with Dutch universities and research councils

New survey aims to foster more international collaboration in studying contemporary writing and help academics understand the needs of potential overseas students

Longevity experts predict that with universities forced online and desperate for new revenue, shift to older students will follow

Course cancellations offer chance to boost internationalisation by aligning Japan’s calendar with many other developed nations

Video conferencing is a reasonable substitute for lectures, but that is where it must end, say Robert Zaretsky and George Alliger

Policy experts express fears that public and politicians will hold scientists responsible for the economic and social damage of lockdown

Tributes paid to former Stanford president who raised a record-breaking $1.3 billion for the university

The Covid-19 pandemic offers universities a once-in-a-generation opportunity to put their dysfunctional strategies behind them, argue Timothy Devinney and Grahame Dowling

The querulous minority are unlikely to mend their ways even in their own bedrooms, predicts Helen Soteriou

Whether it’s to be ‘business as usual’ or not, social scientists have much to offer in discussion about how to move on after ravages of Covid-19

Who will be the winners in the post-pandemic academic job market? Three experts reflect on the skills that will be prized in the ‘new normal’

Filling the gaps between disciplines and between science and technology could lead to greater progress than AI, says Jinghai Li 

Academics involved say they also have a responsibility to ensure technology is used ethically in real life, particularly amid Covid-19  

Survey results from Germany also suggest people think public disagreement between scientists is good, as it will lead to better results

Yes, excess haste can lead to mistakes, but the same is true of natural science, says Sandro Galea

Imperial College London epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, whose project sparked UK lockdown, resigns government role after admitting ‘error of judgement’ over lover’s home visits

Students in the Netherlands are resisting use of software to stop cheating on exams, citing concerns about consent, intrusion and security of personal data

Survey results show online switch ‘going better than expected’, says union. But students at universities of applied sciences appear harder hit

Deborah Bowman discusses the need to challenge medical students’ assumptions about patients with ‘underlying health conditions’

Tributes paid to a researcher whose work proved a ‘game changer’ in our understanding of cellular fats

Inter-university collaboration to develop core online curricula may be the only way to preserve quality, says Matt Jenner 

Pointless meetings, fraught commutes and whiffy shared fridges are mercifully off limits during the coronavirus lockdown. But what else are faculty glad to be rid of? And what are they pining to return to? Seven academics let us know

Global recession may make public and policymakers think more about those ‘at the bottom of society’, says social policy academic

Myths notwithstanding, devolving research agendas to disciplines has a poor record of success, says Steve Fuller

Jeffrey Kennedy, Simon Pek and Graham Smith explore ways of involving students far more deeply in the decisions that affect them

Educational economist Miguel Urquiola tells Matthew Reisz about the upsides of inequality and the dangers of ‘unbundling’

Coronavirus-enforced lockdown is leading to some unexpected scholarly analysis of Ryder and his team of pups

Tributes paid to a researcher who revolutionised our understanding of fungi

‘There is a life in science beyond the virus,’ warns German rectors’ head, amid calls for attention to the trade-offs between shutdowns and scientific progress

Governments are prioritising reopening schools and businesses over campuses. But some academics fear the impact on disadvantaged students – and on their teaching

Virtually all modern university courses end with a request for feedback. But are students’ reactions even useful for improving future course design, never mind assessing lecturers? Seven academics discuss their experiences

Diversity makes most sense if it is about authors’ viewpoints rather than their ethnic origins, says Martin Levy

With insights from a variety of fields potentially useful in the fight against coronavirus, some French academics are arguing for more research and data to be made publicly available

Let’s bury the fallacy that students favour particular approaches regardless of the topic, says Gavin Moodie

Whatever the truth around Mauro Ferrari’s resignation from the ERC, the affair raises an important issue, says Luca Magnani

Mauro Ferrari departed after suggesting launch of a coronavirus programme, but critics warn against abandoning blue-skies science, even in a crisis

We need to build on the speed and enthusiasm with which academics have embraced online teaching, argue Dawn Lerman and Falguni Sen

Mauro Ferrari leaves after just four months in role following rejection of his suggestion that council launch a programme to fight Covid-19

A new HE system based on the UK model should ‘promote rather than regulate’ universities 

The UK’s existing oversight by external visitors and professional bodies is the best way to safeguard standards, says Colin McCaig 

Pace of disruptive change is falling, claims book by Oxford geographer, who says virus crisis could herald a kinder form of politics

Tributes paid to a pioneering female sinologist

The renewable technologies expert discusses being told there was ‘no future in sustainability’ and why cloning herself would be useful

Scientists call for global ‘superbody’ to coordinate coronavirus research, but some fear a centralised approach might close off potential solutions

It is widely acknowledged that universities need to do more to support student mental health. Yet many academics and service staff are worried that well-intentioned initiatives pathologise ordinary anxieties and can do harm as well as good. Kathryn Ecclestone listens to their concerns

As campuses and labs close amid the coronavirus crisis, Jack Grove hears how senior scientists are managing their teams and research projects

One epidemiologist called a colleague a “charlatan” over his coronavirus tweets. Should academics “stay in their lane”  when commenting on the pandemic?

Denying legitimate authors their fair share of credit amounts to academic misconduct, says David Sanders

City, University of London professor calls for the creation of a food security council to feed academic expertise to ministers

To stop economic destruction, we need to refocus vast resources from other productive activity – a truly grand prize might do the trick, says Chris Callaghan

Whether it is establishing new departments or working at breakneck speed, Britain’s research base is mobilising in extraordinary ways to combat Covid-19

As their book about the deep links between education and well-being is published, Anne Case and Nobel laureate Angus Deaton tell John Morgan about their jaw-dropping discoveries of a sharp rise in ‘deaths of despair’ among white American people – and an unhealthy obsession with causality among journals