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
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University presidents should be chosen by lottery
Those temporarily plucked from the academic ranks would have no motivation or ability to wreak havoc and then move on, argues Bruce Krajewski
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International mobility trends shaping academic gender imbalance
Figures from latest Education at a Glance report show low share of women among international doctoral students
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Journals’ English copy-editing services are inadequate and unethical
Editing is often assigned to doctoral students from very different fields – but substandard manuscripts may be accepted anyway, says Brian Bloch
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Notre Dame leader Covid-positive after White House event
John Jenkins apologises for shaking hands and not wearing mask at ceremony
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Researcher leads drive for peer reviewing to be paid assignment
‘I cannot express how incredibly uncontroversial it is to ask for money to perform skilled work,’ says James Heathers
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We must come together to dismantle racism in higher education
Patience will be required to bring along those who refuse to embrace racial equality or recognise it as a priority, says Jason Arday