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ViewUniversities advised to prepare for interruption of China ties

Ending Chinese R&D links would be much tougher than cutting Russian connections, report warns

ViewTop publishers denied impact factors for journals

Taylor & Francis and Springer Nature among big names with journals suppressed for citation anomalies

ViewHow the Ukraine war is changing publications

A physics experiment in Japan is allowing Russian co-authorship by removing all institutional affiliations

ViewUK’s China policy harming R&D collaboration, say academics

Call for clearer guidance among signs that growth in UK-China research partnerships is tailing off

ViewUniversity groups form global forum to boost collaboration

Plans include supporting academic freedom and promoting higher education’s importance to sustainable development

ViewGrant home fee status to Hong Kongers, say MPs

Politicians among those urging ministers to change visa rules

ViewJapan enters informal talks on joining EU R&D programme

Country joins South Korea in expressing intent to join Horizon Europe at EU-Japan summit

ViewUK to support Chinese R&D collaborations via ‘targeted funds’

Sector leader says UK will “have to walk away” from certain areas of research collaboration

ViewKorean and UK health agencies to cooperate on disease control

UK Health Security Agency signs agreement with Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency

ViewRole of US and Chinese big tech worrying EU’s R&D future-gazers

Report suggests Europe needs more collaboration on research and innovation in light of global trends

ViewUK-India links ‘just scratching the surface’

CBI wants more as Boris Johnson touts research partnerships on trip to India

ViewUK and Indonesia commit to strengthen R&D ties

Roadmap sets out nations’ joint aim to build academic collaborations and science and technology partnerships

ViewConcern for projects as UK stops funding Chinese development

Researchers uncertain over Chinese partnerships, despite government assurances existing commitments will be honoured

ViewUK’s freeze on funding R&D projects with Russia wins support

But academics and industry leaders warn against cutting all ties with Russian researchers

ViewMEPs issue warning over China’s influence on universities

European Parliament committee raises concerns over “concealed financing” and “theft” of knowledge

ViewSouth Korea to begin talks on Horizon Europe association

Announcement made as nation and the EU moot cooperation on green technologies

ViewSingapore and UK agree mutual access for space startups

Agreement opens up space markets in the two countries and will encourage university collaborations

ViewUS research system needs strengthening, study finds

Milestone report highlights country’s diminishing share of global R&D spending

ViewIndia’s vaccine manufacturers fund £50m Oxford research hub

Poonawalla family gift to establish facility housing University of Oxford’s major vaccine development programmes

ViewGlobal rate of attacks on higher education branded ‘alarming’

NGO tracked murders and kidnapping of academics during past year far beyond major crisis zones

ViewChevening alumni in Afghanistan ‘fearful for their future’

Situation ‘increasingly desperate’ as they await UK Home Office resettlement scheme

ViewConfucius institutes: Educational exchange or espionage?

The tide is turning against Chinese-government-backed centres in overseas universities

ViewUK loses ground to China in ranking of highly cited research

Global list sees Oxford break into top 10 for number of highly cited researchers hosted

ViewGermany ‘must minimise research reliance on China’

DAAD exchange funder says academic cooperation should continue with caution

ViewNSF ‘overwhelmed’ by allegations of undisclosed foreign ties

Funder’s office of investigations says it has seen huge surge in referrals from FBI

ViewChina and EU ‘committed to COP success’

Leaders Frans Timmermans and Han Zheng stress cooperation on climate change as international relations sour

ViewUK academics launch bid to save colleagues stuck in Afghanistan

Government criticised over inaction as individuals on UK-funded gender-equality projects wait for resettlement

ViewResearcher who fled Afghanistan says universities must ‘step up’

Academic urges institutions to cut bureaucracy and offer immediate support to students and academics

View‘Over 100 European institutions ready to host Afghan scholars’

European academic and civil society groups back urgent appeal for flights, placements and consular support

ViewChina says WHO’s Covid origins probe is playing politics

Officials continue to reject plan for WHO investigation, saying it has “lost scientific principles”