US lawmakers cross party lines in major research funding push
China concern drives leaders of both parties to propose nearly doubling National Science Foundation budget
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Leaders say harm from ‘destructive’ research cuts will last years
UK scientific heavyweights unite to condemn massive cuts to overseas research and urge rethink on potential UKRI reductions
UK students ‘support mandatory vaccination’ for campus return
Significant share of students say they would be more likely to get vaccine if they could do so on campus, but research reveals wide differences by ethnicity
Korea doubles budget for language training overseas
Expansion of overseas language courses could offset declines back home
Alberta pulls back on performance-based funding, briefly
Province appears determined to deploy widely criticised tactic once Covid eases
More Australian universities dive into the red
First institutional accounts reveal mixed results, with many institutions weathering the Covid storm but some plunging into deficit
UK study says block teaching boosts student grades
Plymouth research shows teaching through immersive modules improved marks by about 4 percentage points
Student evaluations of teaching ‘methodologically flawed’
Putting aside questions of sexism, racism and homophobia, Australian literature review finds that SETs are just poor science
Biden challenges universities to meet surge in training demand
Infrastructure plan poised to bring millions of new students as well as billions of research dollars
Biden proposes 40 per cent budget boost for education
Higher education priorities include racial and economic diversity, and science
