Robert Winston: UK government made ‘colossal errors’ on coronavirus Labour peer and scientist also worries that ‘moonshot’ ambitions for 10 million tests a day is setting up science to fail By Jack Grove 23 September
NSS 2021 to go ahead in England despite major review But universities will not be required to promote the survey to students By Simon Baker 23 September
EU-China research relationship ‘unbalanced’, policy head warns Jean-Eric Paquet warns that on open data, research collaboration and academic mobility, EU-China links are not always reciprocal By David Matthews 23 September
Horizon Europe ‘will further weaken basic research funding’ Universities told that emphasis on tackling pandemic, climate change and digital transformation may require ‘reshuffling of money’ By Ellie Bothwell 23 September
Oxford to consider socioeconomic data in PhD applications Pilot scheme to promote diversity in doctoral study will also include anonymisation of applications By Jack Grove 23 September
Pandemic’s impact on university finances ‘will last for a decade’ The global recession triggered by Covid-19 is already ‘more challenging’ in Europe than the 2008 financial crash, warns EUA policy expert By Ellie Bothwell 22 September
Ottoline Leyser: boost efforts to make science accessible for all Head of UK Research & Innovation will urge scientists to help shed public view that research is an ‘elite and alien world inhabited by boffins’ By Jack Grove 22 September
Philippe Sands: lack of UK BAME law academics a ‘major problem’ Leading human rights barrister calls on UK law schools to address ethnic minority under-representation among academic teaching staff By Jack Grove 22 September
Management academics should help executives solve their daily problems Corporate leaders are uninterested in academic research but do respond when told there is a better way to conduct their business, says Oliver Sibony By Olivier Sibony 22 September
Public ‘largely ignorant’ of replication crisis in science But far-right voters view the failure to reproduce results as reason not to trust science as a whole, unique survey data from Germany show By David Matthews 21 September
Georgia’s billionaire-backed university has high ambitions Hopes are high for a new university in Georgia after it signed a partnership deal with Technical University of Munich By Jack Grove 21 September
Unsung female philosophers stake a claim in a book of their own Editor of new collection showcases neglected major female thinkers going all the way back to ancient Greece and ancient China By Matthew Reisz 20 September
