Biden proposes 40Â per cent budget boost for education Higher education priorities include racial and economic diversity, and science By Paul Basken 12 April
Elite US universities boast record applications – and rejections Ivy League and peers pull further away from competition, but there may still be hope for students from disadvantaged backgrounds By Paul Basken 12 April
Liberal academics should be wary of ‘caricaturing’ rightwingers Social media may mute moderate voices, but that is no reason for researchers to presume they don’t exist, argues Duke expert in polarisation By Matthew Reisz 11 April
Biden challenges universities to meet surge in training demand Infrastructure plan poised to bring millions of new students as well as billions of research dollars By Paul Basken 9 April
Canadian university’s aggressive restructuring tactics criticised Huntington accepts separation from Laurentian, but Thorneloe sees danger to students and faculty nationwide By Paul Basken 8 April
MENA Summit: don’t let funders dictate subject mix, says NYU provost Katherine Fleming tells THE event New York University would ‘turn into a gigantic teaching institution for data science’ if it responded to outside pressure By Ellie Bothwell 8 April
The Price You Pay for College, by Ron Lieber Deborah D. Rogers learns how the privileged make college admissions processes work in their favour By Deborah D. Rogers 8 April
The science detective on a mission to stamp out shoddy research Elisabeth Bik has sounded the alarm on everything from hydroxychloroquine claims to Chinese ‘paper mills’ By Joyce Lau 7 April
Slim overlap in research interests ‘sweet spot’ for collaboration Paper finds academics are less likely to work together if they focus on very similar areas By Simon Baker 6 April
Alberta pulls back on performance-based funding, briefly Province appears determined to deploy widely criticised tactic once Covid eases By Paul Basken 5 April
International student projects need to add real value to local communities Institutions should use the pause enforced by the pandemic to rethink their priorities in sending students abroad, says Caroline L. Payne By Caroline L. Payne 3 April
THE Live US: sexual assault cover-ups ‘encouraged by fraternities’ Former sorority member at Vanderbilt University explains how concept of ‘brotherhood’ forces fraternity members to not report assaults By Jack Grove 1 April