Australian university-staff accord ‘will save 12,000 jobs’
Bitter internal conflict brews over union plan to offer pay concessions in return for employment safeguards

Bitter internal conflict brews over union plan to offer pay concessions in return for employment safeguards

University and industry leaders in the UK will discuss the importance of collaboration between institutions, businesses and nations post-pandemic

The querulous minority are unlikely to mend their ways even in their own bedrooms, predicts Helen Soteriou

Academic union faces member fightback over détente with university administrations

Whether it’s to be ‘business as usual’ or not, social scientists have much to offer in discussion about how to move on after ravages of Covid-19

Trade-offs involved in pandemic are ‘bread and butter’ for the discipline and it could be ‘drawn into the broad sciences’, experts suggest

Who will be the winners in the post-pandemic academic job market? Three experts reflect on the skills that will be prized in the ‘new normal’

Filling the gaps between disciplines and between science and technology could lead to greater progress than AI, says Jinghai Li

A renewed European Research Area can be a fresh call to arms for scientific excellence across the continent, says Jan Palmowski

Email to students confirms that University of Manchester will keep lectures online in 2020-21, though tutorials will be held in person

Virologist Christian Drosten has become a high-profile commentator on the pandemic in Germany, but are other disciplines stealing the limelight elsewhere?

Innovation on the line, as coronavirus unleashes domino effect on research mainstream

Student wariness may deliver final blow to crisis-weakened institutions

Clay feet of cross-subsidy policies exposed by Covid-19 crisis, representative groups say