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Inorms 2023: Funder official says partnerships can tackle crises and reduce waste

Universities and research institutions call for “bold and long-term” joint funding instrument

“We are dealing with professors who cannot write, teach, research,” senior researchers told independent assessor

Inorms 2023: African Research Universities Alliance head calls for more spending and collaboration
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Inorms 2023: EU asked to allow funded consortia to choose any partner as a leader

Inorms 2023: Some faculty worried research managers will take their jobs, conference hears

Inorms 2023: Mentorship, career flexibility and narrative changes suggested by speakers

How three of the world’s biggest research funding agencies distribute their money

This week: Uganda enacts anti-gay law, UCT accepts council chair’s resignation and more...

Inorms 2023: Programme manager laments financial toll for institutions of not reclaiming costs

Global Fund and partners invest US$54 million in disease diagnostics in developing countries

South Africa and continent in general "will" benefit from research outputs of new Sarchi chairs

New Legacy Fund aims to revive university’s decaying infrastructure “one brick at a time”

Inorms 2023: Research partnerships entrench dependencies for lower-income countries, keynote speaker says

Everyone in research should understand their role in making it more equitable, says Catherine Kyobutungi

Government allocates US$1 million to fund innovation projects to improve the wellbeing of Rwandans

This week: UCT council chair resigns, Japan pledges funds to health tech and more

Country aims to host emerging economy bloc’s first science and innovation foresight symposium

One of the initiatives is a matchmaking space where young academics can find mentors

Space programmes aside, South Africa’s 2023-24 science budget signals more austerity ahead

This week: a vaccine agreement, an ombud appointment and Cape Coast joins a research alliance

Aim is to move away from wasteful “take, make and dispose” development paradigm

Acting deputy head of teaching and learning as well as COO to step down

“Scenario planning” underway on ways to complete first term of 2023 after residences evacuated

G7 bloc has “critical role” in rebuilding momentum lost to Covid-19 and financial slump, MPs...

Science heavyweights to steer new body aiming to boost domestic vaccine production

Judge finds no evidence that Nelson Torto bypassed academy’s council to increase own salary

This week: Wits starts to build sports complex, Nzimande suspends communications staff, and more

Gender-based violence is the country’s “most complicated pandemic”, says Higher Health chief

Initiative aims to help researchers and policymakers in the global south respond to disasters

Economic shocks and Ukraine war fuelled rise in acutely food-insecure population

Ministers set to approve objectives to boost public health responses and access to research infrastructures

This week: a clinical trials retirement, a vice-chancellor’s death and a global sustainability award

South Africa’s Naledi Pandor says her comments were “misunderstood”

Gaps in understanding result in high failure and dropout rates

Continent is undergoing “unprecedented economic, social and cultural transformation”

Mental health services a neglected part of continent’s healthcare, report says