Major US funder joins Plan S with 2022 open access deadline
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the biggest private US funder of biomedical research, seeks to push聽adoption of European-led standard
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Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History, by Jaipreet Virdi
Lennard Davis is impressed by a compendious account of all the ways the hearing world has tried to put Deaf people right
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Nobel Prize for medicine awarded to hepatitis C researchers
British researcher Michael Houghton and US-born Harvey Alter and Charles Rice honoured for 鈥渟eminal discoveries鈥 connected to novel virus
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Overseas students frustrated as China and Japan restrict entry
Students stranded across the world, half a year since restrictions began, suffer from anxiety and loss of opportunity
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Is university expansion 鈥榮ucking the brains鈥 out of UK towns?
Rise of graduate class has reduced status of manual workers, influential figure warns in book that may offer philosophy for Tory reshaping of post-18 education
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Europe expected to tie research funding to gender equality action
Participation in Athena SWAN-style initiative mooted as probable requirement for Horizon Europe grants
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University presidents should be chosen by lottery
Those temporarily plucked from the academic ranks would have no motivation or ability to wreak havoc and then move on, argues聽Bruce Krajewski
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International mobility trends shaping academic gender imbalance
Figures from latest聽Education at a Glance report show聽low share of women among international doctoral students聽聽 聽
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Journals鈥 English copy-editing services are inadequate and unethical
Editing is often assigned to doctoral students from very different fields 鈥撀燽ut substandard manuscripts聽may be accepted anyway, says Brian Bloch
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Notre Dame leader Covid-positive after White House event
John Jenkins apologises for shaking hands and not wearing mask at ceremony
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Researcher leads drive for peer reviewing to be paid assignment
鈥業 cannot express how incredibly uncontroversial it is to ask for money to perform skilled work,鈥 says James Heathers
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We must come together to dismantle racism in higher education
Patience will be required to bring along those who refuse to embrace racial equality or recognise it as a priority, says Jason Arday
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Covid-19: 770 cases in Northumbria University outbreak
Campuses across UK report growing number of positive tests
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Funder got just five large grant bids from female PIs in 12 years
Success rate by award value also consistently lower for women, EPSRC report finds
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The case for authentic assessment in HE鈥檚 鈥榥ew normal鈥
Traditional forms of assessment, such as exams and essays, are largely irrelevant once students arrive in the workplace聽鈥 we need new methods that relate to jobs, now more than ever