6 November 2022  Issue No: 715

With a 6-3 conservative-liberal majority, the nine-member bench of the Supreme Court of the United States looks set to strike down the use of race-conscious admission policies that have been guiding and facilitating the admission of black and under-represented minorities into the country’s universities for decades.

This year’s COP is seen as the one that will bring concrete actions and commitments on emission reductions and on financing of losses resulting from climate change borne by the Global South. Whatever the outcomes, the scientific community has a key role to play.

Following the recent United States Supreme Court ruling that reversed Roe v Wade and handed to individual states the power to decide on women’s abortion rights, nearly half of aspiring medical students say states’ decisions will influence where they apply to study, a new survey shows.

A pending proposal by the Modi nationalist government to expand the use of Hindi at the expense of English in higher education will harm the Indian economy and deepen divisions that run across a vast terrain of regional politics and multiple languages.

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the dangers of healthcare nationalism, which limits us in improving the health of all people and prevents us from acting together as a global medical community committed to working towards Sustainable Development Goal 3 on good health and well-being.

Newly launched global rankings, which measure universities’ contributions towards sustainability, were motivated in part by research that found that a majority of students held the view that universities could and should be doing more to address the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.