University pledges action after senior officer¡¯s fraud conviction Nick Welch, chief operating officer at Arts University Bournemouth, found to have conned the British army out of private school fees By Chris Havergal 25 March
Academics want greater recognition for team efforts in research Concern that Covid and award incentives deter scholars from pooling their skills By Ellie Bothwell 25 March
No black applicants for some Royal Society grants for three years Analysis highlights ¡®unacceptable¡¯ disparities in racial representation in UK science By Anna McKie 25 March
UK seals first European transnational education deal post-Brexit Agreement with Greece¡¯s Education Ministry will facilitate academic collaboration with country¡¯s state university sector By Ellie Bothwell 25 March
China steps up targeting of European academics Beijing has banned dozens of China researchers and their families, while the country¡¯s embassy to France called an expert a ¡°petty thug¡± on Twitter By David Matthews 25 March
Bristol happiness course ¡®improves student well-being¡¯ Review of UK¡¯s first university course on happiness reveals ¡®positive impact¡¯, even during Covid-19 By Ellie Bothwell 24 March
Sir Paul Nurse: UKRI cuts are ¡®existential threat¡¯ to science Nobelist and Crick director calls on UK government to ¡®come to its senses¡¯ over possible ¡®triple whammy¡¯ hit to science funding By Jack Grove 24 March
Oxford career oasis gives scholars time to escape tunnel vision At the Future of Humanity Institute, early career researchers are given two years to work out which questions are really worth asking By David Matthews 24 March
Tory ex-minister warns PM against ¡®devastating¡¯ UK research cuts Cutting existing research budgets by up to ?2 billion would put ¡®science superpower¡¯ aim at risk, Greg Clark tells Boris Johnson By John Morgan 23 March
Swansea sociologist assembles recollections of a year of Covid Rich accounts of how we screamed at the television, went swimming and adapted to the ¡®surrealness¡¯ of life during a pandemic fill a new archive By Matthew Reisz 23 March
UK universities put on ransomware alert ¡®Significant increase¡¯ in attacks recorded by National Cyber Security Centre since February By Chris Havergal 23 March
The European Union is legitimising Israel¡¯s illegal settlements An open letter from academics across more than 20 European countries and Israel By Contributors 23 March
