Research funding under threat from globalisation, academic warns
Polish professor warns of increasing ‘tension’ between national research funding and global science
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US fails in first Trump-era prosecution over China ties
Jury can’t agree on Tennessee associate professor Anming Hu after FBI admits pressure campaign to get him to spy
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Published corporate research ‘more reliant’ on academics
Data suggest research articles from commercial firms took a tumble in 2020 as academia boosted its output
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US colleges mull permanent travel budget cuts after Covid
Remote meetings and recruitment appear to have yielded big savings, but long-term model not yet clear
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Indian leadership vacuum raises questions over sector reforms
Critics allege that political interference has caused delays to appointments
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‘Peer-reviewed preprints’ will offer guide to quality, says eLife
Proliferation of preprints in Covid era has led non-profit publisher to post reviews from clinicians on online papers
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Levelling-up requires more from everyone – including universities
Government, enterprise and education must contribute to a multi-pronged, long-term programme to boost social mobility, says Anulika Ajufo
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International branch campus ‘top of the wish list’ for India
UK angling to put itself at front of the queue
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England and US ‘falling behind on shift to values-led education’
Former UK foreign policy adviser fears countries could lose ‘monopoly’ over accreditation for failing to inject critical thinking, curiosity, emotional intelligence and empathy into higher education
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‘World standard’ review for Australian research assessment
Rating scale for Excellence in Research for Australia to be recalibrated, with Indigenous studies incorporated as a field in its own right
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US Supreme Court delay seen as aiding Harvard on admissions
In seeking Biden perspective, nation’s top court follows process that comforts affirmative action backers
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Otago medical students turned foreign placements into holidays
Decades of leniency encouraged scores of final-year students to fake their overseas placements and go ‘sightseeing’
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Subject diversity improving globally but US and UK buck trend
Report from Clarivate also raises fundamental questions about how disciplinary priorities are shaped
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US academia defends critical race theory amid political onslaught
Professors and institutions admit worry as at least 20 US states move to block curricula exploring systemic biases
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Young University Rankings 2021: methodology
To ensure that more recently established universities are measured fairly for the Young University Rankings 2021, we have made some modifications to our world rankings methodology, as we explain here