US colleges hit by wave of student labour unionisation Demands pushed by pandemic fears, labour shortages, awakened student athletes and Biden encouragement By Paul Basken 12 October
Northwestern picks Rebecca Blank as president Current chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison will be private institution’s first female leader By Paul Basken 11 October
Nobel prize in economics honours natural experimentation Card, Angrist and Imbens of Berkeley, MIT and Stanford take honour for social investigations By Paul Basken 11 October
US universities take closer look at faculty distractions China crackdown remains controversial, but institutions advised of broader reasons to keep tabs on scientists By Paul Basken 10 October
Parents guilty in first ‘Varsity Blues’ college admissions trial Case comes after most charged in the case already pleaded guilty, leaving USC and Wake Forest coaches next for trial By Paul Basken 8 October
Persecution of Mexican researchers reaches ‘another level’ ‘I don’t know if we are going to be successful, but we are certainly going to make a lot of noise,’ says academic resisting government By Anna McKie 8 October
Computer science and engineering subject rankings 2022: results announced Australian universities make strong progress in both subjects, while Californian institutions are on the rise in computer science By Rosa Ellis 6 October
Research areas that win science prizes ‘see 40 per cent growth’ Extra ‘star’ scientists flock to prize-winning topics in five to 10 years after award, study suggests By Simon Baker 5 October
Collins leaving NIH after record term at top US science funder Political conciliator finds moment of medical success against Covid a good time to let Biden find successor By Paul Basken 5 October
Covid ‘provides cover’ for autocrats’ higher education power grab From party faithful imposed as leaders to scholars sent into ‘civilian death’, institutions face a range of grave threats, argues editor of new collection By Matthew Reisz 5 October
US scientists who unlocked ‘mystery’ of pain win medicine Nobel Californian duo David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian win prize for discoveries on how heat and touch are experienced By Jack Grove 4 October
Quarter of US states ‘likely to skip’ Biden free college plan Black students expected to be disproportionately hurt by local refusals to accept federal aid, analyses conclude By Paul Basken 4 October
