‘UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science – draft’

From the draft UNESCO open science recommendations: Considering science as a global public good, open science services should be viewed as essential research infrastructures, governed and owned by the community and funded collectively by governments, funders and...

‘BOAI 20th Anniversary: Questions for the OA community’

The Budapest Open Access Initiative is almost 20: The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) - the first international open access declaration - will celebrate its 20th anniversary on 14 February 2022. In preparation, the BOAI2020 steering committee is working on a...

‘Studies pick college programs with best investment returns’

From an Inside Higher Ed story on a pair of new reports measuring the program-specific "return on investment" at U.S. colleges and universities: Among those earning bachelor’s degrees, the Third Way report found that 100 percent of nursing and engineering...

$650 million in VC Cash to Indian Higher-Ed Startup

From a [press release](https://emeritus.org/newsroom/emeritus-supercharges-mission-to-make-high-quality-education-affordable-and-accessible-through-650-million-capital-raise-led-by-accel-and-softbank-vision-fund-2/) announcing a $650 investment by Accel and Softbank...