Australia’s lockdown state unveils A$2 billion innovation fund
Victorian budget also confirms hardship packages for universities and foreign students and recovery strategy for international education
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Call for mission-focused ‘collaboration zones’ to boost UK R&D
Vice-chancellors and business leaders urge tighter focus and fresh funding incentives to drive up industry-academia innovation
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Will international recruitment survive Covid-19?
The pandemic has prompted dire predictions about international student enrolment at anglophone universities. But will those fears come to pass? Is there an alternative to standard international...
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Oxford vaccine success is ‘wider win for academic science’
Comparisons with big pharma distract from ‘amazing’ achievement that will lead to long-term dividends for science, say experts
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Moving mountains: the reforms that would push academia to new heights
Until the pandemic forced teaching to go online almost overnight, universities were widely considered impervious to major change. But if one age-old practice can be flipped on its head, why not...
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Going global needn’t mean racking up air miles, universities told
Professor calls on sector to embrace virtual connections and challenge international academic identityÂ
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National security rules on UK investments may impact universities
Government outlines scenario where university spinout’s sale to investor with links to ‘hostile state’ could be called in under planned new law
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Investment in digital transformation will reap a rich dividend
Mass reliance on the traditional 50-minute lecture format will soon be a thing of the past, says David Maguire
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Three universities unite for new bid to scale up Sheffield’s AMRC
Plan seems to unite various factions after acrimony, but could hinge on Whitehall’s post-Cummings appetite for research ‘levelling up’
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Firms shift towards wanting ‘work-ready’ graduates
Latest edition of Global University Employability Ranking suggests systems with closest industry partnerships on skills are on the rise
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A third of Australian sector ‘underpaying staff’, union warns
Some universities acknowledge ‘errors’ totalling millions of dollars but deny deliberate ‘wage theft’
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Retail can teach universities a lot about digital competition
Rationalising online and in-person offerings and establishing mutually beneficial partnerships will be crucial, say Michael Braun and Scott Latham
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China’s five-year plan to step up HE modernisation impetus
Universities urged to take opportunity to modernise, as government’s next strategic plan set to boost research and technology
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UK boosts research budget but fails to confirm £22 billion target
Chancellor’s spending review research boost leaves questions around earlier promises, as funds committed for Erasmus replacement
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REF reforms to seek ‘accountability without complex bureaucracy’
Science minister Amanda Solloway announces review of UK’s main research assessment exercise