Most ‘transformative’ journals miss Plan S open access targets Big publishers finding switch away from paywalls challenging, says European-led coalition Jack Grove 6月 23日
Commission head urged to smooth UK and Swiss Horizon association Science leaders beg Ursula von der Leyen to break political impasse Chris Havergal 6月 23日
Extend PhD funding to reflect ‘modern doctorate’, leaders urge European doctoral body says funders must recognise that current financial support is often insufficient for PhD researchers Jack Grove 6月 23日
More students back firing lecturers who teach offensive material Survey finds UK undergraduates appear a lot less supportive of free speech than they were six years ago Tom Williams 6月 23日
UK academics undervalued by billions of pounds, says report Analysis of ‘true economic value’ of sector says staff are essentially subsidising a broken system Simon Baker 6月 23日
Rectors for moral development ‘sign of Russia’s re-Sovietisation’ Position will be used to ‘keep universities on a shorter leash’ and ‘pre-empt any potential dissent’, academics say Pola Lem 6月 22日
‘Glaring lack of diversity’ among public health journal editors Female scholars grossly under-represented on editorial boards of public health and environmental science publications, says Cambridge-led study Jack Grove 6月 21日
Spain’s ‘crazy’ squeeze on precarity ‘impossible’ without funding Critics say plans to lower the limit on temporary staff from 40 per cent to 8 per cent are unworkable and could lock in under-qualified lecturers Ben Upton 6月 21日
Marginson: push back on ‘securitisation’ to save global science Leading professor proposes charter to protect free exchange of knowledge Simon Baker 6月 21日
How to end Oxbridge dominance? Try halting undergraduate teaching Shift prestigious institutions to ‘greater potential’ of education for excluded adults, says FT columnist John Morgan 6月 21日
Czech education minister quits over meetings with mafia associate Lecturer protests innocence but steps down from government ahead of role leading EU policymaking Ben Upton 6月 20日
NHS and universities work more closely on student mental health Funding boost for new partnerships to ensure those moving to a new location get the help they need Tom Williams 6月 20日
