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Funder’s reduced budget for 2021-22 reflects loss of pro-science adviser and mindset of new Treasury boss, say Whitehall and research council insiders

Just 10 per cent of academics account for half of all engagement with the media, according to a survey of more than 1,000 Swiss professors

Trailblazing initiative to transform hiring, promotion and performance review has been praised by open science advocates

As Isaiah Berlin showed, academics need to reflect on who is sidelined by commitments to ‘positive’ freedom, says Joseph Mintz

As feared, the country’s universities are being used as a weapon to crush dissent against the regime, several academic organisations say

Major scientific breakthroughs require people to be in their labs well beyond nine to five, and we ought to acknowledge this openly, suggests Eneli Kindsiko

With history books increasingly including first-person, ‘confessional’ elements, authors explain why they take this approach, while other historians reflect on the dangers

Study of Swiss students finds men and women overestimate their graduate earnings, but men do it more significantly

Alice Gast says the pandemic has shown the need for crucial changes in universities

But author of 2012 paper on staff qualifications says it is likely to be ‘norm and expectation’ that many academics have a doctorate  

Prolific cancer researcher Eric Lam has been fired after investigation found evidence of data falsification and manipulation

Neither the Equality Act nor campus groups’ good sense will circumvent the duty to give a platform to anyone who wants one, says David Renton