Pour billions into new research translation fund, Australia told
Significant additional funding needed to realise Canberra’s commercialisation goals, say scientists
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Ministers ‘interested’ in Buckingham risk-sharing finance plan
Private university to offer students chance to pay for fees via future earnings agreements in deal with finance firm
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Michigan expects tough recovery from sexual misconduct cases
After firing president for employee affair, top public research university still confronts culture of tolerating abuse and difficult state politics
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Biden crackdown targets for-profit colleges
As administration embarks on writing tough new federal rules, prominent proprietary chain loses transfer agreement in California
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Higher education must stop covering up misconduct
If universities will not give up NDAs, how can we expect private corporations to do any better, asks Julie Macfarlane
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Share of firsts stays high despite end to ‘no-detriment’ policies
Figures could prompt further concerns over whether pandemic-era grading uplift is now ‘baked in’
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SAT university admissions test switching to online format
College Board promises digital exam will be easier for all and again asserts equity advantages as colleges increasingly abandon its mandatory use
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Invest in team builders, not science stars, urges Nobelist
Laureate recalls his serendipitous route to chemistry and California, and how he would turn the UK’s ‘lean and mean’ science system into a world leader
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Chinese universities embrace teaching professorships, with doubts
Roles seek to counter dominance of publication metrics in promotion, but scholars say research should remain primary path to career progression
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Policy influence of UK research ‘severely underestimated’
Analysis of global database of policy documents suggests projects, especially in natural and social science, have widespread impact
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Talking leadership 10: Yong Hoon Lee on science and technology education
The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology president discusses project-based learning, securing government funding and demographic decline
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Technology is destroying not only humanities but thinking itself
The technological objectification of thought plagued education long before classes were conducted over Zoom, says Kishore Saval
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US Supreme Court to review affirmative action in admissions
Nation’s top judiciary agrees to question victories for Harvard and North Carolina upholding long-established right to consider race in admissions
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Gunman dead after attack in Heidelberg University lecture hall
Several people seriously injured, one fatally, after campus shooting, say police
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Cash is king as UK universities shore up finances
Financial accounts for 2020-21 suggest tension may now grow between saving money and investing in staff and facilities