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
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Willetts’ eight are not great but ‘nonsense’
Research areas championed by government dismissed as poor investments by technology expert
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Q&A with Paul Boyle
We speak to the new vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester and former chief executive of the ESRC
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What academics really do on their summer ‘holidays’
A long break sounds luxurious but what is the reality? Scholars share what they did with their ‘free’ time
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‘Crick of the North’ confirmed for Manchester
But centre for advanced materials will still have “satellites” in Oxbridge and London as well as Leeds, Liverpool and Sheffield
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More postdocs, more data skills top biology sector wish list
Early results of 2014 vulnerable skills survey by BBSRC and MRC highlight concerns and importance of multidisciplinarity
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How might a teaching excellence framework be built?
As a vague policy commitment moves towards reality, Jack Grove assesses the potential ways and means
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Universities Week: Willetts announces Biomedical Catalyst funding
Universities and science minister David Willetts has announced a £48 million investment in biomedical research.
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Cranfield University: DREAM team set to dig deep into data
Students at a new doctoral training centre will use big data to tackle challenges such as extreme weather and population growth
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University innovation funding could be linked to SME work
Heif review to ‘look again’ at incentives for helping small businesses, says Hefce chief
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What will the end of final-salary pensions mean for academics?
As a consultation launches, employees consider the impact of the USS reforms
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Hermann Hauser to look at future of Catapults
Ministers have commissioned a review on the possibility of expanding the Technology Strategy Board’s network of Catapult centres.
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Refute ‘private good, public bad’ claims, UC Berkeley told
Hard times for state-funded institutions require forceful restatement of their benefits to society, Simon Marginson says in Clark Kerr Lecture
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World in brief - 19 June 2014
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...
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UUK: industry must have input into curriculum
Businesses must have a more effective input into the design and delivery of courses at undergraduate, postgraduate and foundation level, according to Universities UK's submission to the Treasury-...