science

Science and higher education in Brazil have suffered greatly over the past few years, and the new administration of president Lula has promised to bring back the budgets of federal universities to historical levels and to make a strong effort toward social inclusion.

Non-Anglophone countries need to find a balance between quality of education, service to their own students, efforts to widen access, and national identity, as well making their higher education attractive to international students.

COVID-19 has affected scientific research, teaching, and learning globally. In African low- and middle-income countries, this has been felt more acutely due to preexisting limitations such as poor internet access and dependence on international collaborators for equipment.

Research agendas are now often shaped in the global network, not national systems. Research power has become more diversified, with China and East Asia, India, Iran, Brazil, and others becoming stronger.

For the past 40 years, there has been a high level of collaboration in science and technology between the United States and China. This cooperation has played a key role in China’s modernization and in research that furthers the global common good.