ViewWorld news roundup: 5-11 February

This week: Putin's science commission, China crackdown on exam fraud and Japanese super-computing

ViewScientists seek hearing on ‘racial profiling’ by US federal agencies

Federal Bureau of Investigation points to leader’s past insistence that Chinese-Americans are not its focus

ViewSouth African humanities awards get pandemic flavour

Senior scientists, under-35s and teams eligible for medals

ViewEurope funds three Covid-19 projects in Africa

Quick-turnaround studies will split US$1m over a two-year duration

ViewIntra-African collaboration lags in Covid-19 research

Most pandemic work on the continent is funded by and carried out with non-Africans

ViewLooking past the pandemic

European University Association secretary general Amanda Crowfoot explains the group’s vision for 2030

ViewInside out

Back page gossip from the 11 February issue of Research Europe

ViewUS news roundup: 5-11 February

This week: Yale University admissions and a Nasa climate adviser

ViewUS lawmakers under pressure to support research amid pandemic

Congress sent evidence of dire impacts of pandemic on researchers ‘ignored’ by Covid-19 relief packages

ViewWhen Playbook met Blomfield

An in-depth interview with the chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Students

ViewSkidmore pitches legal ban on essay mills

Conservative MP says contract cheating firms are preying on students during Covid-19

ViewParliament approves EU’s €672.5bn Covid-19 recovery fund

Fund will bolster investment in R&D, among other areas

ViewMEPs call for EU-backed joint fund for vaccine research

Pharmaceuticals industry group also seeks better data sharing in cross-border clinical trials

ViewUKRI accused of ‘cherry-picking’ evidence in PhD Covid response

Strongly worded report condemns funder’s pandemic response as ‘insulting in the extreme’

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 4-10 February

This week: praise for scientists, a visa communication error and calls for more shark research

ViewSanofi workers protest against looming research job cutbacks

French unions furious over growing stock payout with hundreds of R&D jobs on the line

ViewGet ambitious on health research, government told

Research Australia’s pre-budget submission urges support for universities and the health industry

ViewTravel bubble needed badly, say universities

Trans-Tasman collaborations, including work at the Australian synchrotron, are being hampered by border issues

ViewAll in

Policy announcements, like sorrows, seem to come not in single spies but in battalions

ViewOIA publishes details on mass complaints process

Watchdog sets out draft rules on large group complaints from university students

ViewEU disease centre told to look at improving transparency

Centre should be more open about gaps in data, European Ombudsman says

ViewMEPs call for ‘immediate help’ for students affected by Covid-19

Many students ‘have lost faith in their education’, says European Parliament’s largest political group

ViewPriority boarding

As the OfS confirms its next chair, the government outlines where his priorities should lie

ViewPeer raises ‘very adverse effect’ of cutting London weighting

Lords hear of financial impact of cuts to the London weighting in university teaching grant

ViewSwedish research ‘must learn from Covid crisis’ to improve

Health experts urge Sweden to use new forms of cooperation developed during pandemic

ViewCovid-19 has cost developing countries dear

Paper outlines health and food security pressures early in pandemic

ViewStudy shows benefits of patents to small companies, EPO says

European Patent Office study finds holding intellectual property associated with higher revenues

ViewPhD students protest against UKRI by boycotting Researchfish

Students say protest is ‘alternative means of communicating’ with funder over its ‘lack of support’

ViewNordic news roundup: 2-8 February

This week: Denmark joins genomes initiative, VTT signs publishing deal and Norway embraces green medicine

ViewAustralian universities ‘face A$2bn revenue shortfall in 2021’

Effects of pandemic on university budgets are deep and likely to last, say vice-chancellors