Pfizer saga: health warning for UK university research
Life sciences ecosystem may lose out if US firm was ever to take over Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca
Life sciences ecosystem may lose out if US firm was ever to take over Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca
Labour will use a long-term plan for research funding to help create high-wage jobs, ending “uncertainty” in science policy created by the coalition.
Academic Ranking of World UniversitiesChina gains ground on WestChina’s universities are catching up with the West on research strength, but only slowly, according to the Academic Ranking of World...
United StatesLow grade for Obama’s scorecardsUS president Barack Obama has defended his proposal to introduce “scorecards” to rate universities and colleges after two congressmen introduced a...
Higher education committee censured as call to launch tougher actions against employers is passed at UCU congress
In June 2013, the University of Salford announced that it would close its modern languages department. Following the local University and College Union branch’s resolution to support colleagues...
In exercising its autonomy, the UK’s first fully private university has blazed a trail that the rest have followed, asserts Terence Kealey
Student visasLords’ plea for rethink rebuffedThe chair of the Lords Science and Technology Committee has expressed disappointment that the government is unwilling to review its immigration policies....
Uclan and Bangor partnerships confirmed during Willetts visit
Nicholas Till acknowledges his debt to Margaret Thatcher and explains why he regrets his Cambridge degree
Students wishing to progress to master’s degree courses are stymied by the lack of state finance, and numbers of home students are falling. The government has realised that it cannot ignore the...
Students who want to do master’s degrees are stymied by a lack of state finance. Paul Jump investigates how funding can be fixed
Southampton Solent University has named Graham Baldwin as its next vice-chancellor
Departure announced as Prime Minister carries out cabinet reshuffle
The academic who developed genetic fingerprinting has won what is believed to be the world’s oldest scientific prize