Minister accused of ‘retreat’ from post-Brexit EU research deal
Sam Gyimah has been criticised for failing to commit to associate membership of Framework Programme 9

Sam Gyimah has been criticised for failing to commit to associate membership of Framework Programme 9

Introduced to help boost technology transfer amid renewed political focus on ‘industrial strategy’, the KEF aims to complement the REF and TEF. But how will it work? Is it even necessary? And is the...

Unprecedented spending on university estates are transforming campuses and cities more generally, explain the authors of a new book on contemporary design in higher education

The entanglement of the university and tech worlds faces increased scrutiny following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Could joint positions in industry and academia offer a workable and ethically...

Emma Rees on a challenging study that leads to flashbacks of Foucault and Xena: Warrior Princess

Analysis by Deloitte raises questions about current weightings for teaching and research funding

Physicist will step down 'in coming months', once successor is appointed

China’s ‘educational inequality’ revealed as country’s lower-ranked universities fall further behind

The Wolfson History Prize-nominated professor discusses how China’s past shapes its nationalism and why the Communist Party’s ‘historical nihilist’ label suits him

Tributes paid to agricultural economist who wielded significant policy influence

Female under-representation in spin-offs is likely to be attributable to the usual suspects: gender bias, lack of appropriate support and limited access to the right networks, says Simonetta Manfredi

As a Brit leading HKU, Peter Mathieson had no baggage. The University of Edinburgh’s new v-c tells Ellie Bothwell about academic freedom, internationalisation and being treated to taxi drivers’ views...

Academic gatherings may be fun, but they do little to advance knowledge. To justify the public spending that supports them, such events must do more to provide benefits to those who don’t attend,...

Futao Huang considers the five nations trying to compete with China, Asia’s higher education superpower