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This week: slow SDG progress, a Digital Ethics Centre and scepticism over rolling grants
In depth: The Dutch science minister has asked universities to develop shared standards on who can and cannot grant a PhD, following a positive evaluation of a law change that allowed associate professors to do so.
Full story: Dutch minister calls for shared standards on PhD granting rights