Online academic conferences showing wide benefit
Ending in-person conferences during Covid tied to substantial gains in equity, sustainability and inclusiveness, US team finds in broad data analysis
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GCHQ forms first research partnership with UK universities
New partnership with institutions in north-west should drive innovation and even recruitment
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A Bolsonaro defeat will not fully undo his damage to Brazilian science
Deep cuts may be reversed, but the Brazilian president’s anti-science rhetoric will do lasting damage, says John Aubrey Douglass
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Imperial puts more teaching online as Omicron spreads on campuses
Oxford reports 33 per cent increase in Covid-19 cases in a week, with many of them the new variant
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Australia promises long-range medical research strategy
Canberra accepts advice of more than 10 reviews
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The joy (and frustration) of sex research
Coyness, contention and competing agendas all hamper historians and sociologists of sex. Matthew Reisz speaks to those who choose, nevertheless, to probe this most sensitive and intimate of subjects
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EU promises progress on cross-border degrees and universities law
Reforms will seek to overcome barriers to collaboration between universities within bloc
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California collecting test scores despite axeing admissions role
System acknowledges inviting SAT and ACT results for course placement, as Berkeley analysis shows nationwide racial bias in post-admissions sorting
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US graduate student workers scoring union victories
New contracts at Harvard and NYU seen reflecting new determination and political and economic pressures of Biden and Covid
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Biden sides with Harvard on admissions
Responding to US Supreme Court’s request for its position, administration agrees the university’s affirmative action tools meet existing constitutional standards
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Academic freedom under fire across globe, warns Scholars at Risk
Scholars are being harassed, silenced and sometimes worse all the way from Athens to Afghanistan, and from Texas to Turkey, according to new report
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‘Majority’ of staff expected on campus despite home working call
English universities should not switch to online teaching despite Omicron fears, says government
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Union attacks ‘shameful’ decision to outsource Turing scheme
Capita to take on running of UK student exchange programme from British Council
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The race is on
As competition for international students grows more intense and complex, the traditional anglophone giants face a host of new challenges
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The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber and David Wengrow
Chris Knight wishes that the authors of this hugely ambitious study had gone back further and taken greater account of Africa