For greater innovation, universities should try radical collaboration
Partnerships with the public and private sectors can be slow-going or episodic. Urgent challenges demand a step change, says Daniel Diermeier
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Graphene will ‘win another Nobel or two’, says Andre Geim
University of Manchester physicist hits out at critics who claim Nobel-winning discovery has not yet delivered
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Leaders hit by funding crises wary of ‘talking down’ universities
British and Canadian vice-chancellors warn their financial models have never faced greater threats, but do not want to further deter international students
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Visa issues make US ‘no-go zone’ for short student trips
Two-year waits for visa interviews have made it impossible to organise visits to America, says University of Ghana dean
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Scientists who laid machine learning groundwork win physics Nobel
‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield share prize for ‘foundational discoveries and inventions’
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Guidelines on AI use in research needed to avert ‘race to bottom’
Newcastle vice-chancellor says shared approach needed to prevent ‘bad practices’
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Chegg accused of breaching Australia’s anti-cheating law
US-based education support site taken to court by regulator, in first test of nascent legislation
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How Johns Hopkins built a team of star grant winners
‘SWAT team’ of finance experts and science writers helps university secure more federal research funds than any other US institution, says its vice-provost for research
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Scrap REF and allocate funds based on external grants – thinktank
Abandoning ‘bureaucratic’ exercise now would save universities £430 million, according to UK Day One
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University attacks in democracies ‘embolden illiberal regimes’
Increasing trend for policies that attempt to undermine or overhaul higher education in US and Europe being exported worldwide, Scholars at Risk warns
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University keeps details of record v-c payout under wraps
Releasing details of Paddy Nixon’s final-year earnings of $A1.8 million would be ‘contrary to the public interest’, Canberra insists
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Switzerland ‘losing attractiveness’ as government limits spending
Funders and prestigious universities ‘cannot compete’ as budgets stand still or go backwards
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Call for more focused research ‘risks fostering academic elitism’
Experts fear ‘high-risk strategy’ as universities urged to double down on existing strengths and retrench from other areas
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What price inclusion when academic conferences remain child-free zones? Â
When my babysitter fell through, why couldn’t an exception be made so I could attend the fancy £90 dinner, asks Eve Hayes De Kalaf Â
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Brian Cox: humanities research is ‘absolutely vital’
BBC presenter and physicist says ‘no one is clever enough’ to know which subjects to switch off