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The donation, to fund a new global network of universities, is in addition to $750M Soros announced in November to assist Budapest-based Central European University in its enforced move to Vienna

President of Capital Medical University in Beijing, Rao Yi, says US president Donald Trump is ‘disrupting exchanges that would benefit humankind’

Universities should not be viewed as graduate factories. They need to get back to their core ethos, and educate students to think. Learning by doing is the way forward

Experts want to see restrictions on systems they say are error-ridden, invasive and – in the wrong hands – authoritarian

In new report, European business association warns of EU falling behind in global innovation race, as China’s state-led economy soars ahead

Academics want to see a new system that values competition and internationalisation - and which distributes R&D money based on results and excellence

Wellcome survey exposes widespread pressure linked to metrics, competition for grants and demand for high impact research. Many respondents said bullying and harassment is “culturally systemic”

UK science campaigner Mike Galsworthy, depleted after losing his all-consuming campaign to keep UK in the EU, says he has found a new fighting purpose for 2020