Superhuman workloads cannot become the new normal
The amazing work of university staff during the pandemic has created unrealistic expectations, argue Martha Diede and Michelle Pautz
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Will UK PM’s new science council start ‘picking winners’?
Boris Johnson’s new ministerial council has revived discussion over who controls science spending and whether industrial strategy requires government to start ‘picking winners’
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Augar: 50 per cent HE target yielding to ‘age of everyone’
Former chair of government review sees ‘turning point’ on scale of Tony Blair’s target for half of young people to enter HE
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UK universities will suffer badly if pandemic-hit language schools fail
Summer schools that funnel thousands of international students into UK universities are on the brink of collapse, warns Tim Essex
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Mariana Mazzucato: greed holding back, not helping, vaccine drive
Boris Johnson ‘completely wrong’ about vaccine success, while UK industrial strategy vacillation ‘reeks of insecurity’, innovation expert tells ɫºÐÖ±²¥Â summit
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The UK’s industrial strategy: what will it mean for universities?
New approach calls research crucial to raising productivity, but there is a shift in focus to industrial challenges
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How leaders of the world’s top universities are steering their institutions post-Covid
University presidents say the crisis has made clear the essential aspects of higher education and the best way to deliver them, but concerns over the future remain, reports Ellie Bothwell
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Do national research assessment exercises still pass peer review?
As an international review of the UK’s REF begins even before the assessment panels have done their work, has the exercise’s reliance on rereading published papers finally had its day? Might it be...
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UKRI’s support for green open access is the right way forward
New guidelines have rightly rejected publisher claims that gold is the only sustainable path for open access, say Stephen Eglen and Rupert Gatti
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UKRI chair pick pressed by MPs on ‘polluting’ career
Ex-BHP chief executive and current Shell chair defends himself as ‘committed to net zero’ in pre-appointment hearing
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Coal to Newcastle? Not for me, says would-be chancellor
Politician turned coal boss pulls out of appointment as Australian university’s chancellor
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Indonesia’s second foreign branch campus ‘months away’
Australian university presses ahead with campus in Sumatra, agtech centre in Sulawesi and MBA delivery in Jakarta
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É«ºÐÖ±²¥ Awards Asia 2021: shortlist announced
More than 60 finalists recognised for outstanding work, amid tighter competition
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UK ‘lost £1.5 billion’ Horizon 2020 funding after Brexit vote
Scientists for EU says country now needs a plan to regain lost ground as Horizon Europe kicks off
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Independent scrutiny ‘key to success of UK industrial strategy’
White Paper draws ‘line under’ past failings on applied research policy, says academic