End Treasury meddling and restructure UKRI, say Blair and Hague
Former leaders call for science and technology delivery unit to end Whitehall ‘micromanagement’ of research funding and for ‘bespoke’ research councils
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Creativity and its Discontents: China's Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses
These days it is almost impossible to pick up a newspaper without coming across a news story relating to China's extraordinary rise and growing economic might. The figures are impressive: when Mao...
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DSIT creation brings fear over ‘political direction’ of research
Michelle Donelan will have to stop ‘fighting culture wars’ and try to ‘make stuff happen on the ground’, says professor
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Oz visa strategy may leave UK out of position
Australia is to relax its visa rules for overseas students, increasing the competition faced by UK universities just as the coalition government tightens British regulations.
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Curtailing internationalisation would damage the UK’s global ambitions
Limiting international student numbers or cutting post-study work eligibility is not the way to become a science superpower, says Max Lu
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Peer calls for German-style partnerships with industry
Links between universities and manufacturing could help make Britain 'great' again. John Morgan writes
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Michelle Donelan to lead new science department in UK government
Prime minister shakes up structures within government as well as ministerial team
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Salford targets ‘golden triangle’ of jobs, skills, infrastructure
University’s Institute of Technology and proposed innovation district aim to make benefits stick in one of England’s most deprived areas
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Whitehall opposition to Braverman plan to cut UK graduate visa
Departments asked to set out positions on visas, with those resisting restrictions on post-study work options said to include Treasury
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Backing for union’s ‘middle way’ on strikes as pay ‘crunch’ nears
Union may have united membership again but 18 days of strikes could lead to support ‘withering away’, commentators suggest
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Pay talks impasse continues as unions await employers’ offer
Lack of agreement on whether industrial action should continue?while talks are in progress?hampers chances of resolving dispute
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Anger as social sciences lose cash to STEM under REF rule change
Sciences gain ?145 million that would have gone to humanities and social sciences under old system
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Firm friends: the UK needs better university-industry links
Theresa May’s new industrial strategy will support universities’ R&D, but more partnerships with business – while never entirely risk-free – are needed
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What is the real carbon footprint of universities?
Major report seeks to establish true emissions for the whole of the UK sector – and suggest route to net zero