‘Killing’ projects ‘helps multidisciplinary research thrive’
Research ecosystems need some ‘apoptosis’ as some cells emerge and others fade away, summit hears
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Talking leadership: Gary May on attracting minority students
UC Davis’ chancellor, Gary May, has plenty of background in attracting minority students, but finds California’s decades-old ban on race-based admissions a formidable foe
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‘Adversarial collaboration’ makes feuding scholars work together
Pairing of ideologically opposed academics should become sector norm when researchers disagree, says Pennsylvania project leader
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Knowledge Exchange Framework 2023: sector spinouts worth billions
Latest KEF data reveals how Oxbridge offshoots turnover more than £40 million annually on average with impressive results found elsewhere in sector
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Regional universities can hold their own, deputy v-c insists
Think twice before pushing bush campuses into national institution or shotgun marriages with research elite, says Chris Hutchison
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Horizon association deal ‘opens door for Pioneer reappraisal’
Ministers should take another look at ‘ambitious’ plans for decade-long fellowships after Horizon Europe membership was agreed, urges sector
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For their own good, we should force students to physically attend lectures
Lockdowns demonstrated the damage isolation does to mental health. Why are universities prolonging it by recording lectures, asks Paul Wiltshire
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UCU staff back strike action over cuts to campaign team
Union says it is ‘committed to resolving this issue as a matter of urgency’ as Unite urges it to continue funding for postgraduate rights role
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UKRI rejects call to treat postgraduate researchers as staff
Funder’s ‘New Deal’ will examine welfare arrangements for PhD students but insists they are better off ‘without an employment contract’
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Foisting SDGs on academics ‘abdicates political responsibility’
‘The real world doesn’t come neatly compartmentalised,’ summit hears, in exploration of the ‘unique’ strengths of multidisciplinary research
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‘Administrative error’ forces second UCU branch to cancel strikes
Staff union steps in to try to protect those responsible for mistakes, as anger grows among membership
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Ucas appoints Ofqual’s Jo Saxton as new chief executive
Chief regulator who oversaw return of GCSE and A-level exams to take over at admissions service
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Indigenous engagement ‘must be more than accidental’
Admission and retention of under-represented students must not rest on the goodwill of a few ‘teachers and role models’, Sydney summit hears
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Ex-Intel vice-president to lead Australian National University
Cultural anthropologist Genevieve Bell, a former Intel vice-president, will succeed Brian Schmidt at start of 2024
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‘Jealousy’ and ‘lack of community’ hit interdisciplinary research
Incentives needed to build research across disciplines to address global challenges, THE summit hears