Maintain focus on governance reforms, urge staff and students
Representative groups hope their ‘robust practical’ proposals will ensure that intent to fix a ‘broken governance system’ does not end up in ‘the long grass’
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US science budgets have been spared. So why is no one celebrating?
The Trump administration’s proposals to eviscerate the NIH and NSF have been overturned in Congress after a year of cancelled programmes and legal wrangling. Yet as funding continues only to dribble...
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Three brushes with populist power tell me no one in academia is safe
Experiences in Hungary, the US and the Netherlands make threats like autocratic legalism and oligarchic capture feel existential, says Ferenc LaczóÂ
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Haiti looks to restore universities amid instability
Strong institutions can help contribute to country’s development as it grapples with violence and uncertainty, say members of new oversight body
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More UK PhD graduates looking overseas for jobs, study finds
Proportion of doctoral graduates remaining in UK academia has fallen substantially as more enter industry or move abroad, according to a major longitudinal survey
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‘Passive suppression’ eroding academic freedom, ERC head warns
Funding pressures and bureaucratic demands are undermining the credibility of scientists, says Maria Leptin
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Two-thirds of UK public ‘think student debt burden is unfair’
New polling finds voters would like to see government prioritise reducing interest rates for graduates over other reforms
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Labour resists shift on student migration despite Green pressure
Calls to loosen restrictions on international students in wake of shock defeat to left-wing party in by-election may go unheard without leadership change, say experts
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Report highlighting bias risk in campus racism survey suppressed
Technical document, which cast doubt on methodology used in influential study, hit with legal take-down notice from Australian Human Rights Commission
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Loan forgiveness ‘terrible policy but probably good politics’
While ‘doing an Albo’ and wiping proportion of student debt unlikely to make any difference to English graduates’ cost-of-living fears, evidence from Australia shows it was a vote-winner
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News Talks podcast: Will FP10 aid global research collaboration?
As proposals for the future Horizon Europe are scrutinised by the European Parliament, we discuss likely changes to the seven-year funding programme and whether it can support a coalition of like-...
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In post-colonial Africa, the ethical neutrality of AI is pure fantasy
If we treat AI as a purely rational evolution of human intelligence, we risk repeating colonial erasure on a digital scale, says Agnieszka Piotrowska
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EU competitiveness agenda ‘disconnected from daily challenges’
Commission ambitions diverge from major issues universities face, leading sector figures tell parliament event