New Zealand strikes: university staff walk out over pay
Staff down tools as pay and university funding alike drift well behind inflation
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Iranian protests gain momentum as students demand ‘revolution’
It’s the ‘start of a revolution’, students chant in third week of protests
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Click chemistry pioneers win Nobel prize
Trailblazers of a molecule linking technique honoured, including one who becomes a laureate for the second time
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Society benefits from industry partnerships – but there are provisos
Quality, ethics, good governance and impact monitoring must all be safeguarded from the outset, says Zeblon Vilakazi
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MEP: ‘symbolic’ budget cut ‘defunds 50 potential Nobel winners’
European finance ministers told to abandon ‘absurd’ plan to shift unspent Horizon funding elsewhere in their squeezed 2023 budget
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Universities circle as Anthony Fauci plans next career move
Nation’s top doctor, a celebrity after Covid, says he’d like a campus posting to write, lecture and share 60 years of experience
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Paying gas bills with reserves ‘risks punishing good management’
French ministry wants universities to use unallocated funds to cover up to 500Â per cent increases in energy costs
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Deborah Prentice: Cambridge’s ‘pragmatic’ psychologist-in-chief
Princeton ‘lifer’ moves to Cambridge without ever totally shaking off her outsider status
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World University Rankings 2023: methodology
From the information that we gather from institutions across the globe, we rigorously compile our World University Rankings. This is how we assess data on about 1,800 institutions to produce the...
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Universities want better, but bullying won’t get them there
A recent email by a UK vice-chancellor is a case study in how not to inspire people to go beyond the call of duty, say two management scholars
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Jenkyns’ ‘Harry Potter studies’ jibe at universities ‘appalling’
Claim universities feed students ‘anti-British history’ was ‘cheap wisecrack’ when ‘mature debate’ needed, says ex-No 10 adviser
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Quantum scientists win Nobel Prize in Physics
Research by Nobel laureates is now being used for encrypted communications, says Nobel Prize committee
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UK sector agencies Jisc and Hesa complete merger
Union achieves key aim of 2017 Bell review of sector organisations
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Debate stonewalled as speakers desert ‘trans-exclusionary’ forum
Advocates abandon Melbourne seminar over Australia’s answer to Diversity Champions Programme, citing presence of opponents
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Underfunding basic research is a recipe for disaster
Entrepreneurs are the new kings, but academics doing basic research are key to our future – and they need proper funding, says Brian Schmidt