Fed-up overseas students begin lobbying for return to China
Young researchers have been locked out of labs and clinics for 10 months because of Covid
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Nature Communications blasted for paper knocking female mentors
Scientists ask why major journal published findings that female mentors may be bad for your career, even after reviewers pointed out flaws in the paper’s methodology
Nature journals pilot payment for ‘editorial assessment’
Prestigious journal group seeks to spread cost of publishing across a greater number of authors than those accepted for publication
Online learning exacerbates inequality in India
Technocratic’ solutions alone cannot solve a societal problem, expert says
Physicists break new ground by getting back to the kitchen
Vital lessons can be learned from beer, bread and even batter, scientists say
Controversial new research law disappoints French universities
The government points to a decade of funding guarantees, but critics have taken aim at draconian punishments for campus protests and the rushed scrapping of a PhD vetting body
Elsevier reaches open access agreement in Japan
Proposal is first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region for the world’s largest academic publisher
Canadian faculty describe despair from online teaching
Opposition, however, may be less about format and more about resource shortages
Hong Kong brain drain predicted as West launches ‘lifeboats’
Experts predict a post-Covid wave of emigration to the West, but university enrolment likely to unscathed
Europe ‘set to gain’ on research from US-China falling out
International higher education scholar suggests global science is entering a new era of fragility
