Birmingham academics on course to strike over grant income demands
About 80 per cent of UCU members prepared to take industrial action over expectations on external income and other issues
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Have ‘young academics’ been betrayed?
We need to stand up for early career researchers, says Catherine Fletcher
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Aung San Suu Kyi inspires University of Oxford to help Myanmar
University academics answer an appeal for help from country's inspirational leader
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EPSRC to help train quantum engineers in £15m project
A research council is to create a series of skills hubs in a £15 million project to train the next generation of quantum engineers
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Industry input 'may weaken research'
Young scientists could find their research suffers under proposals for an industry-led advisory council to direct science funding in Wales, it was claimed this week. A report from the Welsh Assembly'...
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Which universities are the most innovative?
Ellie Bothwell introduces our four ‘innovation indicators’ and reveals the strongest performers as we visualise a new ranking based on university-industry collaboration
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Ernest Kuh, 1928-2015
A leading expert on electronic circuit theory who spent his whole career at Berkeley has died
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Tekes strategy focus in the European thematic landscape
Brussels, 03 May 2005 The Finnish National Technology Agency, Tekes, is organising a seminar on the next EU framework programme for research, to be held in Brussels, Belgium, on 31 May. The seminar,...
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Dynamic characters
The 100 Under 50 universities are marked by their energy, innovation and fearless approach to the future, write Phil Baty and Katie Duncan
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UCL scholar shocked that government overlooked one great technology
Polina Bayvel of University College London says investment strategy missed the transformative potential of communications technologies
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Interview with Anna Dominiczak
The University of Glasgow vice-principal talks about her journey from studying under communism in Poland to the senior leadership team of a UK university
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THE World Academic Summit 2015 to take place in Melbourne
THE World Academic Summit 2015 to take place in Melbourne, it was announced today.
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Cambridge v-c ‘would be concerned about increases in fees’
Stance of Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, who calls fee rise linked to TEF ‘contentious’, appears to contrast with that of Oxford counterpart
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The Dignity of Chartism, by Dorothy Thompson, edited by Stephen Roberts
Kathryn Gleadle on an admiring and useful tribute to the life and work of a leading social historian
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Europe’s 200 best universities: who is at the top in 2016?
Ellie Bothwell examines strengths and weaknesses in different higher education systems across the Continent