Theresa May announces £2 billion boost for UK research
Prime minister pledges “real terms increases” in investment and new fund to back emerging technology

Prime minister pledges “real terms increases” in investment and new fund to back emerging technology

Other nations’ approaches to universities on visas may help to guide UK

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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Do mobile phones give you brain tumours? Don’t ask the people in white lab coats, says Jennifer Rohn

June Purvis on an engaging study of the doughty pioneers who swapped Edwardian life for the front line

London as an eco-village? Treehouses in Accra? Danny Dorling lauds beautiful and bold what-ifs

All the spoken and unspoken desires in one household are unveiled in a study of their prolific, and introspective, writings, says Jane Shaw

The professor of medieval history and author of Blanche of Castile: Queen of France on the literary and scholarly stepping stones that fuelled her interest in the Middle Ages

We have all the elements needed to make online courses succeed, but institutional inertia at well-established universities stymies progress, argues Laurence Brockliss

We have to do more to ensure British-Bangladeshi girls don’t fear they’ll be isolated at university, says Sally Brian

Africa’s newest country is fertile territory for post-conflict research and more, but they need Western help, says Kuyok Abol Kuyok
We read with interest your article on the problems with resit examinations (“Resits may not improve academic performance, says study”, News, 15 November). At our own medical school, we realised a few...