Europe

Aarhus University has signed up companies to fund fundamental research in what it calls a ‘patent-free playground’

Dip in number of applications puts students in the driving seat, say sector experts

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

The Humboldt University of Berlin, the historical home of interdisciplinarity, is experimenting with new ways to encourage a broader perspective 

Students’ unions achieve goal in teaching excellence framework protest at Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield, and eight other institutions

Post-Brexit university funding issues are about more than the big pots of research cash, writes Gurpreet Jagpal

Professor cites Soviet achievements as evidence of how detachment from mainstream scholarship can foster innovation

Staff covering for academics on leave are often given no time to conduct research themselves

Former deputy steps up to lead as Brexit and funding challenges loom

Data on the entry qualifications of students at UK universities suggest that there must be more to the growth in top degrees

More than half of doctoral candidates surveyed at one university reported “abnormal” levels of stress and depression

Private school pupils 43 percentage points more likely to enrol in most prestigious institutions