China offers students incentives to bolster ‘strategic fields’
Initiative hopes to drive promising performers into fundamental science and basic research
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Most early career academics face funding cliff edge, survey suggests
Responses to survey of junior research staff and PhD students suggest majority have major concerns about their future as they deal with stresses of working under lockdown
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Last Australian state unveils lifeline for foreign students
While NSW support package is dwarfed by Victoria’s offering, reopening economy suggests better times ahead for struggling students
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Graduate student suicide postvention plans can help the entire campus community
When suicide prevention plans aren’t enough, postvention can help minimise the impact on students, faculty and staff write Susanna Harris and Robert Cramer
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Germany widens R&D lead over US and UK
After more than a decade of federal spending increases, the country also looks set to overtake Japan on the proportion of GDP spent on innovation
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Business schools must dig in and help rebuild local economies
They can teach the practical essentials needed for emerging from lockdown and localising the supply chain, says Zahir Irani
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How an antibody left in a lab freezer could help fight Covid-19
Dutch coronavirologist describes how work put on ice two years ago turned into a major discovery
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Pandemic ‘will drive universities into lifelong education’
Longevity experts predict that with universities forced online and desperate for new revenue, shift to older students will follow
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Crisis reignites row over autumn start for Japan’s academic year
Course cancellations offer chance to boost internationalisation by aligning Japan’s calendar with many other developed nations
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Melbourne rejects job protection deal
Australian universities decline union-sponsored agreement, citing individual circumstances and governance concerns
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Women in science are battling both Covid-19 and the patriarchy
The pandemic has worsened longstanding sexist and racist inequalities in science pushing many of us to say ‘I’m done’, write 35 female scientists
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Welsh universities face ‘serious and pressing’ threat in virus crisis
Analysis shows that a dramatic loss of fee income will hit institutions in Wales harder than the rest of the UK
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We must supplement Zoom with small-group, face-to-face teaching
Video conferencing is a reasonable substitute for lectures, but that is where it must end, say Robert Zaretsky and George Alliger
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UK postgraduate sector’s reliance on Chinese students spotlighted
Hepi report offers both negatives and positives on outlook for postgraduate recruitment in wake of pandemic crisis
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Science ‘risks coronavirus backlash’ as it is drawn into politics
Policy experts express fears that public and politicians will hold scientists responsible for the economic and social damage of lockdown