What’s in a name? The new partisan battlefront in college sector Animated by both left and right, operations’ right to label themselves ‘university’ or ‘college’ amplify a regulatory danger for US higher education Paul Basken 10月 11日
Karikó’s Nobel: a moment of celebration or hard reflection? Award forces US university science to face up to treatment of immigrant woman who worked past demotions and threats to help create life-saving vaccine Paul Basken 10月 10日
Research funding increase ‘urgent’ in Canada, says new coalition Sector organisations warn that country risks brain drain if it does not end stagnation in investment Chris Havergal 10月 6日
Universities ‘must crack lifelong learning or risk irrelevance’ Michael Fung, a former deputy chief executive of Singapore’s SkillsFuture programme, takes his methodology to Mexico and the developing world Tom Williams 10月 6日
Chicago seeks to reinforce campus free speech principles In considering revisions for the 10th anniversary of its respected free-speech ideals, university turns to critics of academia’s public voice Paul Basken 10月 6日
Nanotech trailblazers win chemistry Nobel for quantum dots Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov share science’s top honour for research into tiny particles now used in TVs and medicine Jack Grove 10月 4日
College president quits after sexual misconduct probe Small private US campus leader leaves wake of graphic allegations and questions of previous institutions keeping quiet Paul Basken 10月 4日
Peter Hotez: academics cannot defeat ‘anti-science’ alone New institutions are required to stem the tide of misinformation sweeping US, says vaccine expert who was goaded by Elon Musk for refusing to debate a Covid conspiracist Jack Grove 10月 3日
Alberta plans major growth as oil revenues bounce back Three years after province cut its budget by a third, leaner flagship university sees a moment to leap; students hope they can make it Paul Basken 10月 3日
Vaccine pioneers overcame rejection and demotion to win Nobel 51国产视频 of Pennsylvania’s ‘tenacious’ laureates reflect on coping with demotion, dismissal and desk rejection to continue their mRNA research Jack Grove 10月 2日
Medicine Nobel awarded to mRNA Covid vaccine pioneers Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman’s research led to jabs that ‘saved millions of lives and prevented disease in many more’, says award panel Jack Grove 10月 2日