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US-based researchers have dominated the Nobel prizes, but more than one-third of them were born abroad, drawn by the US’ world-leading research ecosystem. Many Nobel laureates fear that Trump’s assault on that ecosystem will choke the flow of future prizes timeshighereducation.com/depth/its-hard…

The UK’s main research funder should set itself targets for attracting industry funding for scientific research and encouraging science-based spin-outs, a parliamentary committee has recommended timeshighereducation.com/news/ukri-need…

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A Nobel laureate offers a dire prediction for the US’ world-leading research ecosystem: “If the US continues down this path, it will be somewhere between a Third World country and a developing nation in 20 years” timeshighereducation.com/depth/its-hard…

Opinion: Increased fees will be hard to swallow but the Office for Students is working hard to reduce the regulatory burden on colleges and universities in England, says Susan Lapworth timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ofs-ap…

Opinion: The Oxford-Cambridge Arc universities kept the faith, but the sector’s current focus is inevitably on shorter-term priorities, says Alistair Lomax timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-hes…

Efforts to internationalise Hong Kong’s higher education sector appear to be paying off, with universities reporting rapidly growing interest from the US and elsewhere timeshighereducation.com/news/hong-kong…

Experts have warned that the “whole of US higher education is on trial” as the sector nervously awaits the outcome of @Harvard’s legal battle with Donald Trump, while other institutions continue to reach their own settlements with the president, writes @paddywjack…

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Tim Hewes-Belton from @lborouniversity argues for "the need for more bespoke welcome activities – a programme that meets the needs of diverse international students without separating them from their peers." In his resource, he offers advice on designing bespoke welcome…

Australian scientists say a percentage of company profits should be siphoned off to fund basic research, warning that “intolerable” underinvestment by business is threatening living standards. @JohnRoss49 reports timeshighereducation.com/news/levy-busi…

Beatrice Murch of Internet Archive Europe explains how the Our Future Memory campaign is fighting to protect access to knowledge – and why higher ed must join the push to collect, preserve, lend and cooperate. timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-mem… #AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #OpenAccess…

Three-quarters of UK institutions reduced their carbon emissions last year as the total volume of CO2 produced fell by the equivalent of flying around the world over 3,500 times, reports @paddywjack timeshighereducation.com/news/three-qua…

Jewish staff at Goldsmiths, University of London claim they are being “frozen” out of its response to an inquiry into antisemitism, amid fears that it will be used to “constrain” protests and freedom of speech, reports @JulietteRowsell timeshighereducation.com/news/staff-fea…

"If we teach electronics engineering students only to analyse circuits without showing them how these circuits were conceived, we risk turning their education into something akin to teaching magic tricks rather than scientific principles." writes Ji-Jon Sit from @NTUsg. Read…

The chief executive of UK higher education’s largest pensions scheme was paid close to £1 million in her first full year in office, annual accounts reveal. @TWilliamsTHE reports timeshighereducation.com/news/uss-chief…

A @uniofwarwick spokesperson comments on the Beyond rebrand: “We have leveraged our academic expertise as part of the Vogue media partnership as well as our professional services marketing and communications work” #Beyond #branding timeshighereducation.com/news/warwick-m…

With new legal duties on free speech set to come into force, Mark Butterick argues that universities must move beyond token policies and truly protect open debate: timeshighereducation.com/campus/univers… #freespeech #highered #academia #freedomofspeech

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A key funder for social policy research is shifting its strategic focus to tackle what it called the UK’s five biggest social and economic challenges, backed by a £150 million investment, reports @paddywjack timeshighereducation.com/news/research-…

Questions have been raised about why several leading UK research institutions missed out on government support to recruit scholars from abroad, with northern institutions describing their exclusion as “deeply disappointing” timeshighereducation.com/news/global-ta…