Centralised hiring a barrier to research assessment reform Systems with national hiring and promotion systems such as Italy, Poland and Spain may struggle the most with European agenda Ben Upton 12月 21日
Indefinite strike or ‘escalating’ action? The choice facing UCU Long-running divisions brought back to the fore at crucial period in UK pay negotiations Tom Williams 12月 20日
Academics struggle to get visas for relatives to visit UK Bestselling Albanian author Lea Ypi among those prevented from seeing family members because of 糖心Vlog Office decisions Tom Williams 12月 20日
Ministers ‘unlikely’ to remove students from migration statistics New chair of Commons education committee ‘concerned’ by moves to limit study visas Tom Williams 12月 19日
UK extends Horizon Europe funding guarantee for third time Stopgap solution will run out in April, when symbolic deadline for resolving a wider EU-UK dispute over Northern Ireland will present itself Ben Upton 12月 19日
Free speech bill fans urge ministers to force home right to sue Government tipped to win battle with peers who removed statutory tort and are ‘unwilling to compromise’ John Morgan 12月 19日
Building Africa’s science capacity requires broader, fairer collaboration The EU and the AU’s new innovation agenda is promising, but implementation will be a challenge, says Jan Palmowski Jan Palmowski 12月 19日
New Danish government keeps ‘harmful master’s experiment’ Broader coalition arrives without answers on a missing DKr300 million for humanities and social sciences, as universities prepare to debate lifelong learning reforms with a “gun pointed at us” Ben Upton 12月 17日
Streeting: medical schools with no British students ‘ludicrous’ Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting attacks cap on medical school places that has led to institutions catering solely to students from overseas Tom Williams 12月 16日
Precarity exacerbating UK science skills gap, peers warn House of Lords Science and Technology Committee also criticises ‘unjustifiably high’ visa costs Patrick Jack 12月 16日
Labour set to back plan to double UK medical school places Shadow health secretary backing a Policy Exchange blueprint for growing doctor numbers, including the creation of up to 15 new medical schools Jack Grove 12月 16日
Edinburgh film screening no-platformed over ‘transphobia’ University reaffirms ‘commitment to freedom of expression and academic freedom’ following student protests and UCU’s call to cancel event Pola Lem 12月 15日
