‘Quite straightforward’ to delay start of 2021-22 academic year
Universities minister says campuses can be flexible in their start date, ahead of statement from education secretary on whether A levels will be pushed back
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Black hole researchers win 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
Oxford professor Roger Penrose shares top honour with German physicist Reinhard Genzel and US-born Andrea Ghez, only the fourth woman to win prize
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Government gets votes needed to pass Australian funding reforms
Controversial legislation comes under fire for reduced support for students, especially in arts and humanities
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Canada to let international students return even as Covid grows
Government cites compassion as institutions fret over losses of tuition and fees
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Reprimand for ‘p-hacking’ is ‘important moment’ for science
Official censure of Leiden researcher who massaged data indicates authorities are more willing to tackle integrity breaches, says Dutch statistician
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US scientists prepare for election battle as tactics questioned
Critics question whether 314 Action movement should back academics in runs against fellow Democrats
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Tsinghua’s ‘global first-class’ status is just the beginning of China’s ambition
Chinese universities’ pursuit of excellence with socialist characteristics aims to put them in the company of Harvard and Oxford, says Futao Huang
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Lingering border restrictions ‘risk New Zealand’s Covid advantage’
At least start processing visas, foreign students beg, as treasury defers hopes of students’ return
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Sheffield universities report more than 850 Covid-19 cases
Sheffield Hallam says it is moving more teaching online in response to growing outbreak
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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 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 “seminal discoveries” 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 ‘sucking the brains’ 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