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Government advice also tells institutions to increase cleaning and make use of outdoor space

New rule represents scaling back of ‘alarmingly broad’ original proposal from regulator

Lack of enthusiasm for universities within new research ‘road map’ confirms government wish to spend funding elsewhere, says policy expert

Michelle Donelan says there has been ‘too much focus on getting students through the door’ in England

New Downing Street unit for attracting global talent and review of immigration rules among measures to support research

Grant funders to assess whether randomly picking ‘middle-level’ research projects for funding is fairer, more efficient and better for science

Boris Johnson says ‘talent and genius are expressed as much by hand and by eye as they are in a spreadsheet or an essay’

But data from UKRI show that fellowship success rates for women and BAME researchers are now higher than men and white academics 

Survey suggests most undergraduates expect limitations on their interaction with classmates next year

Aiming of grants and loans at research-intensive providers raises fears for teaching-focused institutions

Two leading social scientists accused of producing racist scholarship say journals should rethink how they deal with such explosive allegations

Major data analysis of authorship patterns also finds gap is largest among youngest scholars