Universities want €200 billion research budget for next Horizon
Calls for EU politicians to trim fat from next framework programme, better protect its budget from raiding for pet projects and create a new category for Switzerland and the UK
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I’m a victim of ‘anti-male bias’ in science, says Nobel chemist
Switzerland’s Kurt Wüthrich clashes with female researcher after he claimed he was discriminated against at major conference
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Three hundred jobs face axe at Melbourne university
Staff ‘shell-shocked’ as declining enrolments, mounting costs and investment reversal trigger call for voluntary redundancies
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Diversity not essential for research excellence – Nobel pioneer
Germany’s only female Nobel scientist questions notion that diversity is key component of research success in modern science
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Beatings, lockouts, lawsuits: student journalism in Indonesia
While college press has a special place in the nation’s psyche, a legal ‘loophole’ leaves it exposed
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New Zealand university funding lifeline ‘welcome but not enough’
Critics say a temporary boost, in the form of money that had been earmarked for universities anyway, will not compensate for starvation rations
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Willetts: move universities from DfE ‘treating them like schools’
Tory former universities minister urges shift of responsibility to DSIT and binning of ‘Thatcherite rhetoric’ against industrial strategy
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Watchdog targets ‘misleading’ MBA adverts
London-based provider told to remove text from website that implied it could award postgraduate degrees
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US universities should teach a genuinely common core of knowledge
Graduates who can make connections across time and disciplines would be more stimulated, in both the workplace and wider life, says Harvey Graff
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AI must acknowledge scientific uncertainty, says Nobel laureate
Chemistry laureate Avram Hershko says ChatGPT should be forced to cite its sources and state uncertainty levels
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US academics pitch new Confucius Institute-style partnerships
While admitting the much-protested model is dead in the US, Dartmouth’s Hanlon leads expert panel in setting out ways that similar language-culture teaching programmes could grow
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Nobelist: ‘anti-science’ Greenpeace in ‘crime against humanity’
Charity’s opposition to genetically engineered ‘golden rice’ is immoral given crop’s potential to end hunger, says Sir Richard Roberts
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Open University plans in-person teaching with new campus move
Distance-learning provider seeks to fill university ‘cold spot’ in Milton Keynes
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New Zealand boosts subsidies for cash-strapped universities
Observers welcome ‘funding correction’, bankrolled from ‘transfer of underspends’ amid flagging enrolments, but say permanent solutions are needed
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Tulane aims to help New Orleans ‘resurrect jobs pipeline’
Redevelopment of hospital abandoned since Hurricane Katrina seeks to spin innovation from medical and public health strength