Limits on free speech, funding cuts and political appointments at public universities risk squandering a golden opportunity to create a thriving 中国A片 system, says Saikat Majumdar
After decades of questioning grade inflation and race-based policies, one of Harvard’s biggest critics of affirmative action departs in wake of Supreme Court decision
Minister hints at punishment with unprecedented letter to National Science Centre over project exploring the role of bondage anddomination in the development of trans identities
Their value previously unquestioned, Nordic universities have tended to enjoy happy relations with governments despite close state control over them. But a surge of support for populist parties in the region suggests that the consensus may be shifting. Ben Upton reports
Estonian minister says Brussels must drop idea that ‘big is beautiful’ and argues that being ‘agile’ results in faster responses to advances in research
Transferable allowances could bring students clarity and flexibility as they become ‘customers who can make demands’, but some worry about workability and vesting unprecedented powers in landlord-presidents
Deputies of Bulgaria’s Iliana Ivanova likely to have outsized influence on Horizon Europe and its successor, according to a national official unhappy that the planning process belongs to Brussels
As their behind-the-scenes work draws partisan attention, agencies that assess institutional quality differ on tactics and fear Biden doesn’t see urgency in unity
Our message is to hold the policy line. The levy has taken time to bed in, but it would be premature to tear it up and start again, say Chris Husbands and Natalie Day
By creating one large, centralised research funder, Indian government is ‘pouring old wine into new bottle’, say academics, who doubt it will be able to solve the plethora of issues facing science in the country
Petitioners ask leading Italian university to look again at honorary degree for Ka?s Sa?ed over his replacement theory rhetoric and constitutional power grabs
Leaders say a vote curbing Supreme Court powers has forced them to speak out, but they must still consider pro-government faculty and staff as the state heads for civil strife
Ola Borten Moe admits ‘serious misjudgement of my own impartiality’ over multibillion-krone contract meeting about a weapons manufacturer he had indirectly bought shares in
Perhaps the EU could give additional assurances that it wouldapply corrections if the UK won significantly less funding than it put in, suggests Jan Palmowski
