Fragmented UCU strikes leave reballot campaign ‘in the balance’
Union attempts to rally members to renew the fight but few branches opt to take part in industrial action planned for start of new academic year
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World University Rankings 2024: China creeps closer to top 10
North America has also revived while?Oceania’s international outlook has?dipped. Patrick Jack picks out key rankings trends
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UCU calls off Newcastle strikes in error
Union mistakenly sends withdrawal notice to university amid confusion over who is and isn’t taking part in latest walkouts
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Warning over ‘biased results’ of industry-funded research
Europe-wide temperature check of university-business interactions unearths concerns over loss of curiosity-led research?
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Introducing our Sub-Saharan Africa University Rankings advisory board
THE’s?SSA advisory board launches with members from countries across the region
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Japan reports 20 per cent drop in doctorates over two decades
With job prospects slim in Japanese academia, PhD students may need to look outside country for further employment, researcher suggests
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Arts and Humanities Research Council cuts funded PhDs by quarter
UK?funder will support fewer PhD studentships as cost pressures from reduced funding and higher doctoral stipends bite
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A new industry policy: Making the EU a more attractive place for industry
Brussels, 5 October 2005 In the context of the Lisbon “Partnership for Growth and Jobs” the European Commission and Member States made a commitment to focus on economic growth and...
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Industry input 'may weaken research'
Young scientists could find their research suffers under proposals for an industry-led advisory council to direct science funding in Wales, it was claimed this week. A report from the Welsh Assembly'...
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Peers criticise OfS ‘nonchalance’ on ‘looming crisis’ in finances
Lords committee report delivers biting criticism of ‘distant and combative’ English regulator, prompting calls for its chair to resign
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Andy Burnham: ‘HE must move beyond strikes and show its value’
Greater Manchester mayor urges sector to get ready to show next government it can ‘kick-start regional growth’
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‘Excessive’ workloads clearing marking backlog ‘unmanageable’
Union members say tight deadlines?not achievable as boycott ends as universities push to allow students to graduate
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Industry moves to prevent accidents at work
Brussels, 08 Feb 2006 European industrial accidents cause an injury every eight seconds, and a death every two hours. These alarming statistics were called 'astonishing and unacceptable', by Janez...
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Australia spurns boundaries in renewing its science ambitions
Proposed research priorities focus more on broad societal goals than on the mechanisms for achieving them
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Are the odds still stacked against the UK’s ‘challenger institutions’?
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...