ViewItaly news roundup: 5-18 January

This week: launching digital education hubs and contributing to a new science campus

ViewItaly’s PhD students face mental health crisis

Half the country’s doctoral candidates show “clinically relevant” scores for depression, anxiety and stress

ViewEU group on access to medicines launches call for members

Civil society and industry asked to help bloc with manufacturing innovations and supply chains

ViewFunding sustainability is an issue for everyone

The gap between research costs and grants risks becoming a slow-motion crisis, says Bryony Butland

ViewNew colleagues

Hesa’s workforce survey reveals the changing face of UK academia

ViewThe big freeze

Wintry economic times have arrived for universities—is talk of institutional failure overblown?

ViewUK funding at a glance: 8 December to 11 January

This week: vaccines, Scottish space launch, upgraded battery centre and environmental monitoring

ViewFrom the archive: Changing directions with Embo

Short-term travel fellowships encourage that young life-sciences researchers to explore new avenues

ViewPublisher Frontiers to cut 600 jobs

Downsizing will implement a “more agile and efficient model” for open-access publishing, says company

View2024: Elections and expectations

What Europe’s research world is likely to see over the next 12 months

ViewAdvice group suggests benefits of bigger EU role in higher education

Experts say more prominent role for bloc could help higher education weather geopolitical instability

ViewAustralia news roundup: 12 December to 8 January

This week: an Antarctic voyage, Accord progress, declining student numbers and Universities Australia leadership

ViewNew Zealand must take control of its data, Royal Society warns

Concerns raised over offshore storage and limited Indigenous sovereignty

ViewAustralian health council trumpets gender equality goals

Women win more funding than men in latest round of NHMRC Investigator Grants

ViewAfter the break

Student visas and university financial sustainability dominated higher education news over the festive season

ViewNetherlands news roundup: 15 December to 4 January

This week: funding for long-Covid and remembering an influential researcher

ViewAuditors to probe EU’s semiconductor policies

European Court of Auditors will investigate effectiveness of measures to more than double production share

ViewItaly news roundup: 15 December to 4 January

This week: innovation seed grants and worries over COP

ViewHannah Fry is latest president of maths society

UCL professor, TV presenter and self-described “all-round badass” will lead Institute of Mathematics

ViewMPs urge for-sale lab be used to break phage ‘impasse’

£1 billion lab on Rightmove could help speed progress in research on bacteria-eating viruses

ViewAutonomy among priorities for Belgium’s EU presidency

Other research priorities include valorisation of results and closer ties to society

ViewDo not adjust your sets

John Whitfield presents a festive TV guide for the research policy-minded

ViewTop stories of 2023: New Zealand

Election shocks, research assessment and more—the biggest research policy news from New Zealand

ViewAfrica: 2023 year in review

Some bright spots illuminate year in which campus unrest persisted and fossil spaceflight sparked outrage

ViewTurn of the year

We reflect on continuity and change in 2023

ViewNaughty or nice?

TEF appeals, a Sutton Trust report and how universities have fared under Rishi Sunak

ViewFlat cash to science superpower: changing the narrative on R&D

In stormy times, evidence and steadfast advocacy win through, says Case’s departing director Sarah Main

ViewThe secret diary of Patrick Vallance

Ivory Tower: Exclusive* access to the journal everyone wants to read (*totally made up)

ViewMPs ‘astonished’ after testing mega-lab appears on Rightmove

Concerns raised over loss of research facility that received £1 billion in taxpayer money

View2023: Calmer waters for Australia and NZ, but no time for respite

Countries’ research sectors crack on with reforms to make up for lost time in 2023