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History reminds us that freedom of speech also implies the right to vocally object to and demonstrate against speakers, says Evan Smith

Labour peer and scientist also worries that ‘moonshot’ ambitions for 10 million tests a day is setting up science to fail

But universities will not be required to promote the survey to students  

Jean-Eric Paquet warns that on open data, research collaboration and academic mobility, EU-China links are not always reciprocal

Universities told that emphasis on tackling pandemic, climate change and digital transformation may require ‘reshuffling of money’

Pilot scheme to promote diversity in doctoral study will also include anonymisation of applications

The global recession triggered by Covid-19 is already ‘more challenging’ in Europe than the 2008 financial crash, warns EUA policy expert  

Leading human rights barrister calls on UK law schools to address ethnic minority under-representation among academic teaching staff

Head of UK Research & Innovation will urge scientists to help shed public view that research is an ‘elite and alien world inhabited by boffins’

Corporate leaders are uninterested in academic research but do respond when told there is a better way to conduct their business, says Oliver Sibony

But far-right voters view the failure to reproduce results as reason not to trust science as a whole, unique survey data from Germany show

Hopes are high for a new university in Georgia after it signed a partnership deal with Technical University of Munich