‘Places need renewal or they disappear’: Warburg Institute reborn
A £14.5 million revamp of the unusual Bloomsbury library has also prompted a rethink about its mission, says director Bill Sherman
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Call to force AI firms to help universities catch essay cheats
Essay mills pivoting to offering low-cost services to avoid plagiarism checks
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Interview with Sam McAlister
The Newsnight producer who persuaded Prince Andrew to give that interview reflects on why her law degree helped to impress in the media, the Netflix film about her ‘journalistic underdog’ story and...
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Glasgow adds environmental impact to computer science syllabus
University aims to help next generation of IT experts address climate crisis
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Degree apprenticeship focus ‘constrains HE-industry engagement’
‘Highly focused and narrow policy interventions’ such as the £3.5 billion-a-year apprenticeship levy have held back wider engagement between academia and industry, says critical report
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KEF 2024: big post-92s excel on economic regeneration
Many modern universities have received top marks for local growth and regeneration in the latest Knowledge Exchange Framework
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Lift paid work cap for international PhD students, UK urged
International postgraduate research students should be allowed to work longer than 20 hours in university settings, says UUKi-commissioned report
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Increase Aria budget to £1 billion, says Obama science adviser
Former White House science chief Tom Kalil argues higher budget would help ‘non-consensus’ research projects achieve ‘critical mass’
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Elite universities commit to pre-entry courses for refugees
Global network of research universities aims to help displaced learners as United Nations hits halfway mark on access target
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Russell Group ‘should cap private school intake at 10 per cent’
Radical proposal to overhaul admissions to the UK's research-intensive universities would tackle ‘elite formation’, say LSE and Oxford professors
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‘Technocrat, not guru, needed’ as search resumes for UKRI boss
High-profile or opinionated candidates may receive short shrift with ‘CEO in all but name’ Lord Vallance firmly in charge of UK science, experts predict
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Number of UK-based ERC early-career grant winners rebounds
Improved fortunes of UK-based researchers follows return to Horizon Europe, but grantee numbers are still much below pre-Brexit levels
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‘End UKRI funds for open access publishing,’ urges report
Forcing UKRI-backed researchers to publish their papers as preprints would save £40 million annually and ‘accelerate scientific progress’, says thinktank
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Jacqui Smith: fix for funding crisis ‘will not happen overnight’
Universities minister acknowledges ‘financial peril’ faced by UK higher education sector but insists potential remedies will ‘take time’