21 June 2020  Issue No: 603

The COVID-19 crisis should provide an opportunity for Europe to reconsider its science funding models, particularly the emphasis on competitive funding, rethink organisational forms and careers and focus on a more cross-disciplinary approach to build a better and more sustainable future.

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Australia’s federal government will double university fees for arts students and raise them for commerce and law students to fund an expansion of nearly 40,000 places for new students. But teaching, nursing, mathematics, science and engineering undergraduates will have their fees slashed.

As we have learned in the COVID-19 crisis, the future of global healthcare lies in the collaborative competencies of the next generation of internationally competent medical leaders. It is more important than ever that we incorporate internationalisation of medical education into medical education.

United States colleges have welcomed the US Supreme Court ruling on Thursday that the Trump administration’s decision to halt the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA programme was not legal, describing it as “arbitrary and capricious”. The ruling will prevent the deportation of thousands of students.

Graduate students face a complex web of problems relating to COVID-19, but universities often treat each problem individually without recognising how they impact on each other. The well-being of graduate students depends on universities being able to respond with this consideration in mind.