The Trump administration’s proposals to eviscerate the NIH and NSF have been overturned in Congress after a year of cancelled programmes and legal wrangling. Yet as funding continues only to dribble...
Experiences in Hungary, the US and the Netherlands make threats like autocratic legalism and oligarchic capture feel existential, says Ferenc Laczó
Strong institutions can help contribute to country’s development as it grapples with violence and uncertainty, say members of new oversight body
Proportion of doctoral graduates remaining in UK academia has fallen substantially as more enter industry or move abroad, according to a major longitudinal survey
Funding pressures and bureaucratic demands are undermining the credibility of scientists, says Maria Leptin
New polling finds voters would like to see government prioritise reducing interest rates for graduates over other reforms
Calls to loosen restrictions on international students in wake of shock defeat to left-wing party in by-election may go unheard without leadership change, say experts
Technical document, which cast doubt on methodology used in influential study, hit with legal take-down notice from Australian Human Rights Commission
While ‘doing an Albo’ and wiping proportion of student debt unlikely to make any difference to English graduates’ cost-of-living fears, evidence from Australia shows it was a vote-winner
As proposals for the future Horizon Europe are scrutinised by the European Parliament, we discuss likely changes to the seven-year funding programme and whether it can support a coalition of like-...
If we treat AI as a purely rational evolution of human intelligence, we risk repeating colonial erasure on a digital scale, says Agnieszka Piotrowska
Commission ambitions diverge from major issues universities face, leading sector figures tell parliament event
Influential body to assess effectiveness of routes into country for top talent, as latest figures show numbers have not increased despite government attention
Party says it will recognise universities as central to ‘Wales’s economic future’, while cutting funding for institutions perceived as curtailing free speech