Trump pushes major research shift to advanced computing
White House challenges Congress and EU on priorities and rules for AI
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Chinese government bulldozes ‘publish or perish’ mentality
Move to reduce reliance on SCI citations in decision-making could affect everything from researchers’ careers to university rankings, experts say
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Don’t break England’s apprenticeship system with misguided fixes
Employers value higher and degree apprenticeships. Restricting access to them would be counterproductive, says Jane Longmore
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Professor’s use of N-word sparks debate at Oklahoma
Use of word angers students, who say it was pedagogically unnecessary and hurtful
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Subsidy shifts and fee hikes on the menu for Australian universities
Minister flags ‘financial fine-tunings’ to ‘squeeze greater productivity out of existing funding’
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Wiley strikes ‘read-and-publish’ deal with UK universities
Four-year deal with Wiley hailed as ‘step-change’ moment in switch to open-access publishing
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Trump eases free-speech threat, but HE groups still spooked
After months of angry vows from the president, formal proposal limits scope and penalties but onlookers remain wary
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Santa Cruz fires striking teaching assistants
Graduate students had been seeking help with high housing costs
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USC failed to stop gynaecologist’s abuse, federal inquiry says
Review cites repeated failures to help thousands during decades of assaults, despite presence of credible evidence
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Policy experts ‘encouraged’ by UK stance on Horizon Europe
Academics say they are relieved that the government will seek to participate in EU research programme, but danger of full package of agreements collapsing is ‘a real scenario’
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Australian university groups dispute ‘academic freedom’ definition
Proposed definition could provide get-out-of-jail-free card for ‘rogue academics’, some claim
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EU leaders desert research in Brussels budget showdown
Silence of academics allowing politicians to abandon pledges to back Horizon Europe funding in crunch talks, observers warn
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The Chair: can Netflix series do justice to university life today?
With a new show in the pipeline, academics have many suggestions for plot lines and pitfalls to avoid
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The Covid-19 outbreak highlights the potential of preprints
A recent posting on bioRxiv may have been erroneous, but the mistakes were picked up within hours, notes Kristen Sadler
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US science’s primacy hinges on public regard, sector leaders say
Helping Americans understand and value science is vital to nation’s continued supremacy, conference hears