Nobelist: keep faith, because Covid vaccine is just round corner
Virologist Michael Houghton explains why we should be ‘a bit more patient’ for a coronavirus vaccine and how a 2:2 degree did not deter his scientific ambitions
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Japan goes cautiously back to campus for autumn term
Students eager for campus life offer ‘no pushback’ to strict Covid measures being implemented by most universities, including keeping lunchtime conversation ‘to a minimum’
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Widespread interest in bite-sized study among UK job-seekers
Polling shows appetite for modular learning among unemployed, those at risk of job losses, and those wanting to upskill
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Distance learning is not the best model for pandemic teaching
Online courses should be easily adaptable to post-Covid circumstances – whatever they may be, says An Jacobs
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Australian research assessment ‘too expensive and opaque’
Veteran administrator calls for Excellence in Research for Australia workload and frequency to be slashed
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UK research spending promise ‘not a done deal’
Downing Street may be forced to break manifesto pledge as Covid ruins public finances, warns Westminster insider
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UK v-cs want new talent scheme and cross-border research funding
Report from Universities UK International explores how country can enhance its international academic reputation
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Funding reforms take some blame as more Australian jobs cut
STEM-focused university warns that looming fee and subsidy changes may sharpen pandemic’s bite
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Nature to publish open-access papers from January 2021
Deal with Max Planck institutes puts cost of publishing article in prestigious journal at £8,600
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Top US science journals risk reputations to battle Trump
Pushed by Covid, academic authors see rare need to offer political voice
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REF reforms to seek ‘accountability without complex bureaucracy’
Science minister Amanda Solloway announces review of UK’s main research assessment exercise
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‘Simpler’ Wellcome grants aim to ‘give researchers more freedom’
Biomedical research charity to focus efforts on infectious diseases, mental health and global heating
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Men should not become the explicit standard in reference-writing
Tackling bias by urging writers to avoid stereotypically female descriptors undervalues qualities such as cooperation and care, says Davina Cooper
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Climate scientists ‘fly more than other researchers’
Environmental experts also more likely to have taken steps to offset or reduce impact of travel
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US Christian college faculty failing to fall in behind Trump
New polling indicates that college-educated white evangelicals are moving away from supporting Trump, while many on Christian campuses are struggling to back him