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German academic looking at UK system raises concerns over incentives created by research excellence framework

Ministers must demonstrate that assessing ‘excellence’ does more good than harm, says Dorothy Bishop

Times Higher Education World University Rankings data reveal the 20 best institutions based on private-sector investment per academic

UK among the worst performers in analysis of 69 national academies

Pat Thomson identifies five abiding fears that prey on the scholarly mind

Like the Scottish independence referendum, the uncertainty of a post-Brexit negotiation makes fact-checking very difficult

Sharing knowledge and information widely is no waste of time, says Philip Moriarty

Matthew Reisz reflects on the challenges of the obituary writer

Researchers hail separatism as a way for region to escape Spanish bureaucracy 

Future research excellence framework could incorporate information on the ‘future plans of institutions’

Consultant downplays fears that leaving the EU could see overseas sources of funding dry up

Lecturers are more likely to opt for sparkling water at lunch these days, argues Athene Donald

Times Higher Education hears how Wu's career encompassed filming Tiananmen protests and sending China’s first email

Despite claims that engagement with business is as important as research and teaching, academics find they have no time for work outside the academy

Higher education must look beyond financial gain to help solve the Middle East crisis, says Zahir Irani

But peer review processing firm must deal with author comments like those on ‘consenting mole rats’

Leading novelists tell Matthew Reisz about life under the academic spotlight

Extra contributions are likely to cost many university staff more than £1,000 a year, analysis shows

We talk to the glaciologist about how it feels to have a glacier named after him and the chances of a catastrophic sea-level rise resulting from climate change

BMJ editor in chief raises alarm over drug trial research funded and often controlled by manufacturers themselves

Being part of a 'Big Science' collaboration was challenging but exhilarating, says Martin Hendry

Len Fisher explores his links to a mathematician, a film star and a heavy metal band

UWE researcher says academic specialists in management need to connect far more effectively with industry

Techniques used by scientists led by Ruth Gates and backed by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen are coming under the microscope. Jon Marcus reports from Hawaii

As 14 February approaches, Tim Worth looks at a couple of choice Collinses and remembers what Georgian ladies had to put up with

Thailand’s institutions want to develop joint degrees with the UK, but hurdles remain in visa red tape and political instability

Australian academic Benjamin Habib reflects on the worst public embarrassment of his career

Interviews with MA students in UK suggest that although few agree with Chinese government line, compulsory courses dull development of independent thought

Drug company hopes to provide a new home for studies that try to replicate previous experimental results

A focus on basic cell biology and statistical population health studies means that understanding how living systems operate has been neglected, they claim

White students are over-represented compared with young UK population, but there is huge variation for other groups

Subra Suresh fears that business short-termism, increasing research costs and worries over cybersecurity are undermining the incentives to invest

Dave Sayers shares his tips on how to boost productivity

Analysis suggests higher selectivity fails to increase journals’ impact factors

Continuing conflicts will limit collaboration between universities in Iran and in neighbouring Gulf nations, says scholar

Institutions from eight countries feature in a snapshot university ranking for the region

Center for Open Science hopes initiative will make results more reproducible

British-Turkish academic who signed petition for peace is one of hundreds of academics who could face legal action in crackdown

Committee of MPs hears that effort to conduct vaccine and treatment trials during outbreak in West Africa was ‘uncoordinated’

With the latest data showing that just 17 professors in the UK are black women, two explain how a new award will help more ethnic minority staff thrive

Egyptian government also provides details of higher education reforms

Warning comes after stories about Coca-Cola’s spending on science hit the headlines last year

Authors argue this means universities should spend less on senior academics and give promising younger scholars more of a chance

After a man dies following a clinical trial in France, Christopher Roy-Toole asks whether lessons were learned after a similar incident in the UK

Scholars say they feel overwhelmed by demands, but there is scandalously little evidence on whether long hours make any sense for knowledge workers, finds David Matthews

Some surveys show faculty putting in at least 60 hours a week, but research casts doubt on whether this is a productive routine

International Policing and Justice Institute integrates practical police training into an academic context

Qatar University tops list while the UK is the most outward-looking nation

Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative billed as a ‘grassroots’ response to concerns over reproducibility

Analysis of seven prominent medical journals finds randomised controlled trials are far less likely to receive a press release than weaker observational studies

Despite mission statements proclaiming importance of ‘third stream’ activity, scholars do not see it as a priority

Plos Biology launches new section looking at how experiments are run and incentive systems for scientists

City University London vice-chancellor among academics recognised

Institution’s US Centre seeks to promote multidisciplinary and international research on American policy

Chair of review into research excellence framework also defends decision to have steering committee dominated by Russell Group

New research initiative is thought to be the first of its kind in the UK, if not the world

Baron Stern of Brentford has previously raised concerns that the research excellence framework forces academics to focus too much on publishing articles

Philosophers Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum speak up for the benefits of writing collaboratively

Investment pays off for the economy, finds groundbreaking US study

The former director general of the World Trade Organization talks immigration and inter-university rugby rivalries