THE 100 Under 50: Acelerando!
Marcelo Knobel and Renato H.L. Pedrosa discuss Unicamp's past and what the future has in store

Marcelo Knobel and Renato H.L. Pedrosa discuss Unicamp's past and what the future has in store

The University of York has always been unafraid to go its own way, Laurie Taylor recalls
David Nutt, the drugs 'scientist who got sacked', tells Matthew Reisz that a less punitive approach is needed
AustraliaGeneration disengagedThe chief scientist of Australia has claimed that young people are "disengaged" from scientific subjects. Ian Chubb said that although the nation's science commands...
Republicans at loggerheads with Democrats and Moody's over retrenchment. Graham Jarvis writes
Open-access advocates have attempted to build up a head of steam in the US by launching a petition on the White House website calling on the Obama administration to require all publicly funded...

South Sudan's fledgling universities need money - and educated young people - to survive. Graham Jarvis reports
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHHealth Technology Assessment programme• Award winner: Chris Hollis• Institution: University of Nottingham• Value: £188,092Clinical effectiveness and patient...

Give independent scholars their funding due, says Peter Geoghegan: while the academy is 'rethinking', they are busy doing
Rise in non-EU applications masks problem with key market, THE poll finds. John Morgan reports
Introducing a "student premium" to encourage more teenagers from disadvantaged families to attend university may lead to cuts in support for mature or part-time students, sector figures have warned.

Shocked by price rises, UK students are looking carefully at US universities. Elizabeth Gibney writes
Lowering university offers to reflect social deprivation may be misguided because decisions are being based on unreliable data, the head of the UK's admissions body has warned.

The sole surviving chick from a pair of peregrine falcons nesting on a Nottingham Trent University building has been cooed over by more than half a million people since its first appearance via the...
A university has defended a senior manager who encouraged staff to improve student-completion rates by resubmitting work, giving "generous" deadline extensions and passing assignments before they had...