Innovation Summit: Los Angeles universities help city on sustainability University data expertise essential to ‘capacity building’ for city government on issues ranging from air quality to localising UN sustainability goals, THE summit hears By John Morgan 27 April
Sydney alliance puts academics ‘respectfully inside policy tent’ Australian thinktank stakes new ground in the quest for practical engagement By John Ross 19 April
Korean universities hit with overseas recruitment bans Government ‘shifts blame’ for visa overstayers to universities, in blow to regional institutions wrestling with declining domestic population By Pola Lem 10 April
Tying funding to outreach ‘fails to help freedom of expression’ Efforts to encourage more academics into public debates should forget indicators and focus on training and support, Norwegian rectors say By Ben Upton 1 April