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With its Trump-style promise to smash woke ideology on campus, Germany¡¯s far-right populist party is widely seen as a threat by academics. And with even the country¡¯s mainstream parties promising little for higher education or research, few are relishing Sunday¡¯s election. Emily Dixon reports

New partnership of Open Research Europe with national research funders could boost interest in the platform, experts say

Research funders and universities condemn planned yearly reductions of more than 460 million Swiss francs 

Distinguished scientists who left Greece¡¯s National Council for Research, Technology and Innovation criticise fragmented oversight and excess bureaucracy

Proliferation of for-profit providers sparks concerns of ¡®abusive practices¡¯ including misrepresentation and tuition fee fraud

Prompted by deadly train station collapse, thousands of students are calling for government accountability

Ten thousand back call for Antoine Petit to resign as president of French state research organisation

While majority do see themselves as staff, discipline and stage of PhD likely to influence how candidates perceive their role, researchers say

Switzerland¡¯s agreement to join Horizon Europe follows a roller-coaster decade during which it was twice excluded from EU research programmes owing to political squabbles with the European Commission. Emily Dixon assesses the fallout ¨C and asks whether a third exclusion can be ruled out

With new restrictions imposed after Russia¡¯s invasion of Ukraine, academics prioritised protecting teaching over research, study finds

Divide between scientists in research institutes and teacher-researchers at universities in spotlight after op-eds