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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Grant winners – 5 January 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Innovation & Impact Summit 2017: programme details announced
Event will explore university-industry collaboration, curiosity-led research and whether institutions can create entrepreneurs
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Jean-Lou Chameau: the leader with the Midas touch
Ellie Bothwell talks with the KAUST president about effective leadership, securing funding and the importance of keeping the local public onside
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Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe, by Richard Ivan Jobs
Book of the week: Richard Larschan traces the steps of the young tourists who forged a borderless post-war identity
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Tech challenger universities lead the way on industry links
THEÂ analysis shines a light on institutions that have thought outside the box on research collaboration and funding
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Peter Mathieson: Hong Kong ‘prepares me well’ for Scotland
University of Hong Kong v-c denies he is ‘heading for a simple life’ as the next head of the University of Edinburgh
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Thousands of scholars call for US academic boycott
But some academics suggest move would harm US universities and scholars ‘who desperately need support’Â
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Ideas of a university: defining our terms
What is a university? The Lords debate on the HE bill asked this very question and reminds us that in 2017, clarifying their purpose is more vital than ever
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The Social Life of Kimono: Japanese Fashion Past and Present, by Sheila Cliffe
East Asia’s most iconic garment is as dynamic as any Western mode of dress, finds Joy Hendry
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No heroes and villains in academic publishing
Jeffrey Beall’s blacklist of predatory publishers has disappeared, and so too should ideas about ‘good’ and ‘bad’ journals, argues Martin Parker
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The People’s Money: How China Is Building a Global Currency, by Paola Subacchi
After years of suppressing the renminbi, China strives for a global currency, says Anna Watson
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Education ministers from Pacific Rim meet to discuss reform
Ministers from Asia, Australasia and the Americas explore common challenges
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Mexico’s CETYS plans future in shadow of Trump’s wall
Border institution co-hosts international conference with US universities as Trump presidency begins