UK’s innovation strategy to specify ‘missions’ and ‘strategic tech’
Minister bills new strategy as helping UK to keep pace with ‘global innovation race’
Minister bills new strategy as helping UK to keep pace with ‘global innovation race’
Lords committee report delivers biting criticism of ‘distant and combative’ English regulator, prompting calls for its chair to resign
A decade of English university policy has sought to improve standards by increasing competition. However, new institutions remain small and peripheral. Tom Williams asks whether the prestige gap and...
Union members say tight deadlines not achievable as boycott ends as universities push to allow students to graduate
THE government's higher education strategy has been attacked for encouraging undergraduate vocationalism at the expense of the real graduate qualities valued by industry. In this month's edition of...
Greater Manchester mayor urges sector to get ready to show next government it can ‘kick-start regional growth’
Proposed research priorities focus more on broad societal goals than on the mechanisms for achieving them
Former schools minister who took A levels at the age of 25 before getting Sussex doctorate will shadow science secretary Michelle Donelan
Outgoing Sheffield Hallam v-c also urges politicians to stop expecting that all universities should ‘look like a medieval theme park’
Academia and the armed forces may seem worlds apart, but officer training has valuable lessons for university managers, says former Indian army veteran-turned-professor Vikas Rai Bhatnagar
University of Limerick president talks about putting in place university-wide structural changes to inspire cross-pollination between disciplines
The 2028 exercise’s measurement of the quality of research environments will account for a quarter of overall marks. But what exactly does quality look like? Can it really be measured? And are there...
At the heart of the debate about the global competitiveness of EU-funded research is the question of whether science should be a tool for industrial policy or a global power for good, says Jan...
Reducing the number of universities in South Australia would fly in the face of the Universities Accord’s call for more differentiation, says Warren Bebbington
Union has just weeks left to call vote on whether to extend industrial action or members will face being forced to clear assessment backlog