Underfunding basic research is a recipe for disaster
Entrepreneurs are the new kings, but academics doing basic research are key to our future – and they need proper funding, says Brian Schmidt
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Talking Leadership 44: Alice Gast on championing ‘risk-taking’ foreign students
Compelling stories of how foreign-born founders drive economic prosperity are more likely to convince policymakers about the need to embrace overseas students, says Alice Gast, who recently stepped...
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Retraction of masturbation study ‘troubling for free speech’
New York-based manga comic expert claims withdrawal of Karl Andersson’s controversial paper may ‘stifle innovation and scholarship’ in future
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Aid-setting exemption ends for top US universities
As legal challenge gains, Congress avoids renewing provision seen letting elite campuses tie financial offers to student ability to pay
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Reactionary lecturers ‘emboldened’ by incoming Italian government
But political scientists and politician-scientist say the country’s rightward shift poses ‘no risk’ to academic freedom or international recruitment
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US exchanges offer hope for University of the South Pacific
Biden administration comes to the party, as cash-strapped regional institution seeks new ‘development partners’
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We need equal sabbatical opportunity
Scholars from the Global South have vastly fewer international options than those from the Global North, says Srila Roy
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Jenkyns: universities offer ‘Harry Potter studies’ and ‘Marxism’
Minister’s comments at Conservative conference reignite culture wars over universities
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Nusrat Ghani named UK science minister
Strong critic of Chinese human rights abuses takes on brief after hiatus of several months
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V-cs ‘disappointed’ by Braverman’s overseas students comments
New home secretary concerned about dependants ‘piggybacking’ on family members’ student visas
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Truss government ‘must not let lifelong loans wither on the vine’
Philip Augar issues warning on LLE, but Lord Willetts fears new government ‘would like to’ restrict higher education entry
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Swedish geneticist wins medicine Nobel for Neanderthal research
Svante Pääbo follows in footsteps of his father, a fellow Nobel laureate
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Contextual admissions ‘as abhorrent as racism’ – ex-DfE adviser
Iain Mansfield warns ‘widespread discrimination’ against wealthier students weakens university funding case
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Romanian education minister resigns over plagiarism allegations
Sorin Cîmpeanu accused of ‘trying to legislate in his own interest’ for draft law that would introduce amnesty for plagiarism more than three years ago
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University leaders need sabbaticals too, says Cape Town v-c
Mamokgethi Phakeng describes journey from guilt over taking time out to learning to relax into a much-needed break