Life sciences strategy to strengthen links between universities, NHS and pharma
David Cameron is to announce a new government strategy developing links between university medical research, the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry.
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Arts and Humanities Research Council cuts funded PhDs by quarter
UK?funder will support fewer PhD studentships as cost pressures from reduced funding and higher doctoral stipends bite
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Prizes and catapults: government unveils innovation and research strategy
The government will fund more inducement prizes to solve interdisciplinary challenges as part of its new innovation and research strategy.
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Growing appetite for university-industry collaborations
REF and ‘impact agenda’ makes sector look at collaborations with extra interest, scholars say
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Peers criticise OfS ‘nonchalance’ on ‘looming crisis’ in finances
Lords committee report delivers biting criticism of ‘distant and combative’ English regulator, prompting calls for its chair to resign
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Andy Burnham: ‘HE must move beyond strikes and show its value’
Greater Manchester mayor urges sector to get ready to show next government it can ‘kick-start regional growth’
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‘Excessive’ workloads clearing marking backlog ‘unmanageable’
Union members say tight deadlines?not achievable as boycott ends as universities push to allow students to graduate
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Australia spurns boundaries in renewing its science ambitions
Proposed research priorities focus more on broad societal goals than on the mechanisms for achieving them
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Starmer picks Peter Kyle as shadow science secretary
Former schools minister who took A?levels at the age of?25 before getting Sussex doctorate will shadow science secretary Michelle Donelan
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Are the odds still stacked against the UK’s ‘challenger institutions’?
A decade of English university policy has sought to improve standards by increasing competition. However, new institutions remain small and peripheral. Tom Williams asks whether the prestige gap and...
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Chris Husbands: English sector calls for fee rise are ‘tone deaf’
Outgoing Sheffield Hallam v-c also urges politicians to stop?expecting?that all universities?should ‘look like a medieval theme park’
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Talking leadership: Kerstin Mey on using arts to reimagine education
University of Limerick president talks about?putting in place university-wide structural changes to inspire?cross-pollination between disciplines
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University leaders can learn from military minds
Academia and the armed forces may seem worlds apart, but officer training has valuable lessons for university managers, says former Indian army veteran-turned-professor Vikas Rai Bhatnagar
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The European Union cannot afford an insular approach to research
At the heart of the debate about the global competitiveness of EU-funded research is the question of whether science should be a tool for industrial policy or a global power for good, says Jan...
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Can the REF really address the research environment crisis?
The 2028 exercise’s measurement of the quality of research environments will account for a quarter of overall marks. But what exactly does quality look like? Can it really be measured? And are there...