Canadian Nobelists warn country over innovation malaise
Top scientists say Canada must provide more fulfilling careers for its science graduates
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One-fifth of the world’s top universities led by women
Number of female vice-chancellors at high-ranking institutions has reached new milestone based on THEÂ World University Rankings dataÂ
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MIT Press to publish monographs open access from 2022
Historic in-house press at Massachusetts Institute of Technology asking libraries for participant fee to enable titles to become publicly available
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London Met creates £15 million fund to hire 80 minority staff
University pledges to embed critical race theory and ‘decolonial discourse’ in all disciplines
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Dutch research funder operations frozen for a month after hack
Unlike Dutch universities, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research cannot pay a ransom to attackers because it is a public body
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The government is the biggest threat to French academic freedom
The crackdown on ‘Islamo-leftism’ is a purely political move to court right-wing votes in the coming election, says William Barylo
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Social sciences’ lack of common truth criteria invites political attack
Worries about Islamo-leftism in France and free speech in England reflect disciplines’ straddling of science and activism, says Alexis Artaud de La Ferrière
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Policy paucity ‘ruining ߣߣÊÓƵn universities’ revival efforts’
Superficial thinking in Canberra is squandering transformative opportunity for higher education, Brisbane forum hears
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The New Internationalists, by Sue Clayton
Catherine Rottenberg applauds a bold attempt to forge a politics of solidarity in response to humanitarian crisis
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Covid rules relaxed as launch day set for UK post-study work visa
Graduate route will allow international students to to stay in the country to work for two years, or three for doctoral students
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Otto Dov Kulka, 1933-2021
Tributes paid to a Holocaust scholar who also produced an ‘immensely moving’ account of his traumatic childhood
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A crack in the foundations
International student mobility was the rock on which universities built their empire. With Covid turning prior certainties into unknowns, what now?
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Interview with Susan Trumbore
One of the world’s leading experts on the carbon cycle discusses campaigning for Joe Biden as a teenager, the magic of the Amazon rainforest and why she will never give up fieldwork
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Don’t underestimate what students have lost during the pandemic
Rites of passage failed to launch this year, from sex to graduation. We have a moral duty to help students find meaning in their lives, says Bertus Jeronimus
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UK universities ‘increasingly reliant’ on agents for EU enrolment
THE investigation shows that more than two-fifths of institutions use EU agents, with Brexit cited as both a factor and a hindrance