Europe

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

Email to students confirms that University of Manchester will keep lectures online in 2020-21, though tutorials will be held in person

Virologist Christian Drosten has become a high-profile commentator on the pandemic in Germany, but are other disciplines stealing the limelight elsewhere?

Universities hardest hit by coronavirus crisis might need to accept merger or mission shift in exchange for state aid, warn sector leaders

Data on prospective student enquiries show demand to study in UK is strong despite coronavirus

University of Glasgow principal Sir Anton Muscatelli says inputs into England’s TEF will become unreliable owing to pandemic shocks

Researchers find overseas students from China are experiencing high levels of anxiety and insecurity in wake of pandemic

Voluntary scheme in response to pandemic ‘devastates’ staff

As the tools of complexity theory prove crucial in responding to the pandemic, they must be taught far more widely in universities, argues former oil executive turned researcher

Impact usually originates in discoveries by smart people who could not possibly have dreamed of the application, says Douglas Kell

University of London institution's head issues stark warning to staff that finances are ‘not good’ and job reductions are ‘inevitable’

Imperial College London epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, whose project sparked UK lockdown, resigns government role after admitting ‘error of judgement’ over lover’s home visits