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After more than a decade of federal spending increases, the country also looks set to overtake Japan on the proportion of GDP spent on innovation

Dutch coronavirologist describes how work put on ice two years ago turned into a major discovery 

Longevity experts predict that with universities forced online and desperate for new revenue, shift to older students will follow

Analysis shows that a dramatic loss of fee income will hit institutions in Wales harder than the rest of the UK

Hepi report offers both negatives and positives on outlook for postgraduate recruitment in wake of pandemic crisis

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

蒂莫西 • 德温尼（Timothy Devinney）和格雷厄姆·道林（Grahame Dowling）认为，新冠疫情大流行为大学提供了一个千载难逢的机会，将那些不起作用的策略抛在身后

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