Chinese new year
Japan loses its crown to its main regional rival, as massive state funding and innovation pay dividends for the People＊s Republic, writes Katie Duncan
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Shake-up aims to build rapid reaction research force
ESRC intends revised training strategy to better support PhD students and to speed work on new issues. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Bedfordshire joins Glasgow in fossil fuel commitment
The University of Bedfordshire has become the second higher education institution in the UK to commit to not investing in the fossil fuel industry
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How might a teaching excellence framework be built?
As a vague policy commitment moves towards reality, Jack Grove assesses the potential ways and means
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Irish scientists protest ＆funding apartheid＊
Hundreds of researchers sign letter warning of cost of focusing exclusively on business-led priorities
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Brian Cantor: why I took the Bradford v-c job
The former leader of the University of York on how his new role＊s focus on technology made the decision an easy one
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UCU leaders derided over ＆missed＊ chance for better pensions deal
Left impugns tactics in Universities Superannuation Scheme dispute but negotiators claim improvements were achieved
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Budget 2015: PhD loans up to ?25K announced
George Osborne has announced that the government will offer PhD and research-based master＊s students income-contingent loans of up to ?25,000
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Engineering degrees still not appealing to women
Little change in uptake over past 10 years despite millions spent on initiatives to widen participation in STEM subjects
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Innovative collaboration
The engineering skills shortage debate has been raised again as the result of a recent report 每 Excellence in Postgraduate Education: Manufacturing, Materials and Design 每 published by Cranfield...
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Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information, by Eva Hemmungs Wirt谷n
Robyn Arianrhod welcomes an unsentimental study of the first woman to win a Nobel prize
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Blog: ※Mega-faculties§ are not the answer
David Phoenix explains why his institution is moving away from the model of big multidisciplinary departments
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Campus close-up: Queen Margaret University
A Scottish institution aims to tackle obesity with products developed in a new food innovation centre
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Digital skills crisis looming, peers warn
A UK shortage of digital skills has reached a ※tipping point§ and universities are not doing enough to address the crisis, a House of Lords report warns
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Campus close-up: University of Sussex
Nearing its half-century, the Science Policy Research Unit＊s bold bid to find ＆radical solutions＊ to global problems will cast the expertise net wide