Share of firsts stays high despite end to ‘no-detriment’ policies
Figures could prompt further concerns over whether pandemic-era grading uplift is now ‘baked in’
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SAT university admissions test switching to online format
College Board promises digital exam will be easier for all and again asserts equity advantages as colleges increasingly abandon its mandatory use
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Invest in team builders, not science stars, urges Nobelist
Laureate recalls his serendipitous route to chemistry and California, and how he would turn the UK’s ‘lean and mean’ science system into a world leader
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Chinese universities embrace teaching professorships, with doubts
Roles seek to counter dominance of publication metrics in promotion, but scholars say research should remain primary path to career progression
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Policy influence of UK research ‘severely underestimated’
Analysis of global database of policy documents suggests projects, especially in natural and social science, have widespread impact
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Talking leadership 10: Yong Hoon Lee on science and technology education
The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology president discusses project-based learning, securing government funding and demographic decline
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Technology is destroying not only humanities but thinking itself
The technological objectification of thought plagued education long before classes were conducted over Zoom, says Kishore Saval
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US Supreme Court to review affirmative action in admissions
Nation’s top judiciary agrees to question victories for Harvard and North Carolina upholding long-established right to consider race in admissions
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Gunman dead after attack in Heidelberg University lecture hall
Several people seriously injured, one fatally, after campus shooting, say police
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Cash is king as UK universities shore up finances
Financial accounts for 2020-21 suggest tension may now grow between saving money and investing in staff and facilities
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Delhi students grow restless as classes stay online
Undergraduates complain of poor attendance in online classes and cheating in examinations
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Ohio’s new anti-abortion law is also an attack on academic freedom
A ban on abortion clinics’ use of university-affiliated doctors is a barefaced interference in universities’ hiring decisions, says Edward Halperin
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How to make the most of the promise of quantum computing
The publication of three Nature papers demonstrates that money is no substitute for good ideas, open science and collaboration, says Andrea Morello
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India-UK student mobility ‘must go both ways’
Call for subcontinent to be recognised as more than ‘just a market for education’
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Returning to in-person education was harder than I expected
Classroom skills that previously came naturally to lecturers and students can become very rusty in the online environment, says Christopher Hallenbrook