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ViewCall for urgent plans to protect Africa from invasive species

Current law and strategies do not adequately address the challenge, institute warns

ViewSouth Africa to test traditional remedies against Covid-19

R15m from indigenous science budget will be reassigned to trial herbal treatments

ViewFew SA companies aware about innovation support tools

More than 70% of businesses ‘innovation active’ but only 2% receive government backing

ViewScience faces ‘survival’ crisis in wake of Covid-19 funding cuts

Research foundation worst off but universities and other agencies will also take direct hits

ViewFrom vaccines to surveillance: EDCTP announces Covid-19 rapid grant winners

Studies worth €10m will enable European and African teams to target pressing pandemic challenges

ViewAfrica news roundup: 26 June to 2 July

Research heavyweight to take charge of Wits and other news

ViewSKA’s Covid-19 budget cut not a big blow, says director

Money destined for delayed intergovernmental dues has been repurposed to fight pandemic

ViewSouth African universities ‘simply not ready’ to complete academic year online

Need for in-person teaching will stretch year until March 2021 at least

ViewStudent unions challenge lack of consultation in unlocking universities

Not all universities have allowed student leaders back on campus, union body claims

ViewEvidence of ‘parachute’ research in African geoscience

Two-thirds of high-impact geoscience papers focusing on Africa have no authors from the continent

ViewNIH puts $60m into African health data science

Research will focus on continent’s ‘most pressing’ clinical and public health problems

ViewAfrica news roundup: 19-25 June 2020

South Africa to examine Covid-19 impact on students, and more news

ViewMayosi report highlights problems with UCT’s institutional culture

‘Corridor talk’ thwarts racial transformation at Africa’s top-ranked university, review claims

ViewOpposition apologises for ‘debt write off’ allegation

South Africa’s largest opposition party admits oversight, but claims error was ‘well intentioned’

ViewSouth Africa begins its first coronavirus vaccine trial

Vaccine also being tested in Brazil, the United Kingdom and the United States

ViewSouth Africa investigates vice-chancellors’ salaries

Council of Higher Education expects to deliver findings by March 2021

ViewSouth Africa’s free higher education roll-out slammed

Minister says Zuma-ordered overhaul was too fast and led to problems

ViewTackle climate change like Covid-19, Africa urged

United Nations report says citizens can be supportive of radical change if backed by evidence

ViewMassive science cuts as pandemic drains South Africa’s coffers

Emergency budget slashes science by R1.44 billion, higher education by R10bn

ViewAfrica news roundup: 12-18 June

Africa-linked researcher wins World Food Prize

ViewUK funds African digital innovation networks

Networks to ‘address development challenges’ like health, energy and online access

ViewSouth African journal to publish special issue on Nattrass paper

Editor welcomes ‘heated’ debate over article on race and subject preference

ViewTop South African universities continue to fall in rankings

UCT drops out of QS’ top 200, and other universities move off list entirely

ViewAdvanced HIV probably missed due to lockdown in South Africa

Surveillance should be ramped up or HIV deaths could spike, scientists warn

ViewAcademy queries accreditation of over a third of South African education journals

Review warns of deficiencies in seven of 17 journals—a ‘surprising’ number

ViewApplications sought for African biodiversity data grants

EU-funded support aims to digitise natural history collections and develop data networks

ViewUCT charts slow return to ‘studios, labs’ for researchers

‘Staged’ return aims to minimise risks during expected Covid-19 peak in June, August

ViewSending tremors through Africa’s research funding landscape

UK departmental merger could change the playing field for research—again

ViewResearch in a pandemic: Don’t overlook communities

Engagement must not be left by the wayside during coronavirus pandemic, ethicists warn

ViewSouth African grantmaker announces further disruptions due to pandemic

No NRF awards in September, and travel grant recipients should submit new plans