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Changing loan terms ‘might not be popular’ and would cost average graduate £10,000 but could be better than cutting places or funding, says Hepi paper

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Chemical weapons expert turned Cambridge don reflects on conspiracy theorists in academia, making safe a 60-tonne bomb with science and breaking the world press-up record

Tributes paid to Brown University and Carnegie Corporation president: ‘a man of the world who inspired the world’

Union says education’s secretary’s criticism of students is ‘dangerous’, as Magdalen president defends ‘democratic decision-making’ that led to removal

Interviews with learned societies raise fears that independent imprints will be frozen out of publishing’s future

Michael Higgins warns campuses ‘have suffered attrition of range and depth, loss of interdisciplinary exchange, leading in too many cases to a degradation of the very scholarship and teaching for which they were established’

Ideal of shared governance suffers, though AAUP heartened by some revivals, especially at large public universities

Limited objections tied to nation’s political divide may be theatrical but still significant, survey suggests

Head of state weighs in on dispute, as war of words escalates among Pacific neighbours

Wang Yongzhen stabbed at Shanghai university

Headhunters and scientists have reported waning interest in UK research roles, citing high cost of visas and healthcare as a key deterrent

Gender bias in student reviews leads vulnerable females to be more lenient in their assessments, large analysis finds

Survey of German students finds higher levels of cheating during online exams than in on-site exams for the 2020 summer semester

Holyrood administration announces extra cash to assist with applications to Horizon Europe

Shell chair and former BHP chief executive nominated to succeed Sir John Kingman

Delhi redevelopment could put irreplaceable documents at risk, say scholars

University staff are keen on hybrid working, but will it work long-term for researchers? Jack Grove examines which practices might outlast the pandemic

Report author says increasing funding would only lead to more insecurity, and culture shift is needed instead

Shift towards studies using preregistered reports could inhibit scientific inquiry and harm researcher well-being, argue US scholars

Senior Fijian politician brands vice-chancellor’s new contract ‘illegal’ as council splits on national lines

We are in danger of underselling ourselves to ‘like-minded countries’, Australian chief defence scientist warns

Critics argue that The Lancet failed to disclose potential conflict of interest when dismissing the leak theory

Funder’s reduced budget for 2021-22 reflects loss of pro-science adviser and mindset of new Treasury boss, say Whitehall and research council insiders

Misplaced fear of racial and sexual threats, plus the need to provide a ‘feeling’ of security, cited as reasons universities are reluctant to limit armed officers

Latest attempt to replicate Darpa brings bipartisan praise but also wariness of potential harm to basic health research

Just 10 per cent of academics account for half of all engagement with the media, according to a survey of more than 1,000 Swiss professors

Economist says university innovations can rejuvenate Australian productivity, but only if ‘bizarre’ tax arrangements are addressed

Trailblazing initiative to transform hiring, promotion and performance review has been praised by open science advocates

Covid has only widened gender inequalities among researchers, data show

Embattled university president in staunchly conservative state sees business-world allies valuing benefits of under-fire course

Former minister accuses Canberra of ‘McCarthyism’ amid spate of unexplained research grant delays and vetoes

University retreats under pressure by pausing graduation plans for critic of pro-Trump insurrectionists

As Australian minister calls for an online shift to reach 10 million foreigners, insiders warn such offering wouldn’t meet students’ needs

Geopolitical rivalry, security concerns and America’s ‘roaring 20s’ optimism generate R&D prospects down under, ambassador says

Interplay of pandemic, geopolitics and demographics generating ‘significant movement in this part of the world’

As feared, the country’s universities are being used as a weapon to crush dissent against the regime, several academic organisations say

Promising studies in treating mental illness leave Collins eyeing expansion in politically sensitive area

With history books increasingly including first-person, ‘confessional’ elements, authors explain why they take this approach, while other historians reflect on the dangers

Liberals go focus on undergraduates with collaboration push while Labor hawks reconstruction fund

Those who understand how their advice is likely to be implemented are more able to make it constructive, professor says

Study of Swiss students finds men and women overestimate their graduate earnings, but men do it more significantly

But academics need to navigate political tensions, even in their classrooms

Japan achieves best performance in six years, but China still tops the regional ranking 

Podcast denying systemic racist attitudes in medicine seen as emblematic of leadership at top periodical

Hiroshi Amano expresses concern about poor representation of postgraduate degree holders in corporations

More than 60 finalists recognised for outstanding work, amid tighter competition

Love for Confederacy permeates oldest state-funded military college in the US, investigation concludes

Japan could take inspiration from European models, says former Max Planck head

Survivor of a bleak upbringing, Marquette’s Michael Lovell sees pathways to assist students burdened by pandemic

But author of 2012 paper on staff qualifications says it is likely to be ‘norm and expectation’ that many academics have a doctorate  

Alice Gast says the pandemic has shown the need for crucial changes in universities

Australian university presses ahead with campus in Sumatra, agtech centre in Sulawesi and MBA delivery in Jakarta

Prolific cancer researcher Eric Lam has been fired after investigation found evidence of data falsification and manipulation

Outreach with less prestigious and rural institutions vital, sector leaders say

‘Tinkering with an outmoded’ approach is not enough, Tan Eng Chye tells THE event

China-born academics now make up the largest cohort of foreign scholars in Japan, followed by Americans, Koreans and Britons

As online shopping and pandemic leave swathe of retail units vacant, universities are urged to seize chance for space and civic roles

Government’s lifelong loans plan is fuelling drive to cut system costs and ‘spatchcocking a good idea’, sector figures fear

After yet another minister falls to a plagiarism scandal, observers lament that a long German tradition of doctorates has descended into academic ‘credentialism’