Australian campuses bid to save autonomy from Canberra meddling
Universities face ban on deals with foreign partners that lack ‘institutional autonomy’, as they wrestle with similar demons
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US lawmakers cross party lines in major research funding push
China concern drives leaders of both parties to propose nearly doubling National Science Foundation budget
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What are you reading? – 29 March 2021
A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Scholars wary of Biden’s opening salvo on foreign research ties
New president appears to accept Trump’s last-minute rules codification
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Funding concerns as Mexico moves closer to free higher education
Academics say universities are in the dark over their future funding levels, and ‘compulsory’ higher education policy creates overly high expectations for students
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Why is the UK government considering a huge cut to research?
John Morgan looks at why UK research faces crisis over Horizon Europe funding under government that wants ‘science superpower’ status
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In my rush to embrace new tech, I forgot about my students
We must fight the urge to want to play with shiny new toys even more than educate our classes, says George Justice
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Doctoral funding at risk if further cuts forced on UKRI
Experts warn that diverting cash to pay for Horizon Europe association would exert a heavy toll on early career scholars
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If the UK is concerned about women’s safety, it shouldn’t cut the GCRF
The cuts will hit organisations helping women and girls to evade violence and access justice, say Christine Chinkin and Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
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Australia ‘has passed peak rankings’
Australian universities’ standing in global league tables may have plateaued
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Casualisation is not a formula for success in Indian universities
Government concern has not yielded concrete steps to address chronic faculty shortages and adjunctification, says Pushkar
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Military occupies Myanmar campuses
University employees are ‘in the firing line’ and some have gone into hiding
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Snapchat is set to haunt exam integrity efforts
The use of the messaging app for cheating is apparently rife, bringing the whole viability of online exams into question, says Daniel Sokol
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Former major general jailed for fraud exits university post
Nick Welch, chief operating officer at Arts University Bournemouth, given 21-month sentence
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China sanctions UK academic in Xinjiang row
Newcastle University scholar says she ‘will not be silenced’