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

ViewSocial sciences ‘at a crossroads’

Australia’s social sciences could ‘decline substantially’ thanks to falling university budgets and Job-Ready Graduates reforms

ViewAustralia news roundup: 2-8 February

This week: STEM workforce development, updates to threatened species and a vaccine capability push

ViewExchange blows

Is the Turing scheme fit for purpose?

ViewCoronavirus developments at a glance: 30 January to 5 February

The latest coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic from Research Professional News

ViewNorthern Irish universities to benefit from £37.7m boost

Top-up payments for universities as students receive £500 each for Covid-19 pandemic disruption

ViewStudents to keep higher maintenance loans this term

Students with rent contracts will not be reassessed for loans, even if they moved home

ViewAHRC’s digital link-up with Ireland, Plan S explainer, what research evaluation misses, how to write a paper

A roundup of this week’s Funding Insight articles

ViewEurope ‘well below’ rivals on innovation, says von der Leyen

Bloc must invest more and make growth easier for small companies, says Commission president

ViewAudit finds delays in Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund

It can take well over a year to approve new challenges, says National Audit Office

ViewNetherlands news roundup: 30 January to 5 February

This week: businesses raise R&D spending, cash for Covid-hit researchers and more

ViewOpportunity profile: Early career lifeline in Western Australia

Extra chance to win generous, but hypercompetitive, fellowships from the Forrest Research Foundation

ViewCap in hand

Students living at home get unwelcome guidance, and should number controls return after all?

View‘Universities must plan for post-pandemic community building’

Undoing damage to social bonds from Covid-19 identified as a priority by leading institutions

View‘Largest ever’ survey of research and HE technicians launched

Survey launched as Royal Society commits to boosting technicians’ careers