Europe

Policy experts express fears that public and politicians will hold scientists responsible for the economic and social damage of lockdown

The University of Cambridge’s inaugural professor of the psychology of education and mental health talks about switching from sport to science and why it’s so important to research education and mental health together

The Sainsbury Laboratory director will oversee a huge increase in R&D spending as head of UK’s main research funder

The academy through the lens of the world’s media

A 2017 speech by Emmanuel Macron on European identity has led to the creation of an initial 17 pan-continental consortia involving 114 universities. But do they amount to anything more than yet more vacuous memoranda of understanding? David Matthews reports

The Covid-19 pandemic offers universities a once-in-a-generation opportunity to put their dysfunctional strategies behind them, argue Timothy Devinney and Grahame Dowling

Protecting the European research budget offers better long-term hopes of saving the European project

England's OfS reveals how next year's £48 million teaching grant cut will be spread across institutions

Record year for university philanthropy in UK and Ireland sees Oxford and Cambridge dominate fundraising

Scientists fighting for more publicly available research say changes made during Covid-19 crisis have influenced their efforts

Who will be the winners in the post-pandemic academic job market? Three experts reflect on the skills that will be prized in the ‘new normal’

A renewed European Research Area can be a fresh call to arms for scientific excellence across the continent, says Jan Palmowski