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Unlike the rest of the EU budget, research funding disproportionately flows to rich members. But there are pressures for this to change

Lord Stern's warning adds to concerns about a brain drain from British universities in the wake of the referendum result

Shift may be evidence that researchers feel they are increasingly judged on citations and journal impact factors

Minister invites researchers to send ‘concrete’ examples that UK academics are being stopped from bidding for EU grants 

An often anti-intellectual Leave campaign has triumphed, leaving scholars wondering why so many appear to distrust them

But research leaders in the UK say their European counterparts are already freezing them out when it comes to applying for EU money

Sites like Patreon and Kickstarter allow backers to fund independent scholars, but for now, the sums are small

Iain Gillespie, former research and innovation director at Nerc, explains why the University of Leicester is setting up four new institutes

Brexit vote leads some European researchers to conclude joint bids with UK academics are now too risky

There was huge support for Remain from university staff – but the public begged to differ

But universities are not entirely blameless for leave supporters' distrust - academics' liberal and left-wing tendencies verge on conformity, says David Matthews

Dutch push to tackle fraud and ‘reproducibility crisis’ follows high-profile misconduct cases in the country

Ritual dating back to 1922 seeks to remind graduates of their ethical obligations – while one business school has also adopted the idea

Instead, researchers should aim for methodological ‘soundness’ rather than ‘flashy claims of superiority’

Committee of MPs comes to no firm conclusion on whether common framework for research and commercialisation is good for the UK

Krzysztof Rybiński on changing Narxoz University’s culture and the lure of ‘the best meat in the world’

With truly immersive headsets now on the market, academics are beginning to explore how to use the technology for teaching

While the UK is a net contributor to the European Union overall, it does get back more research money than it puts in, figures suggest

Jean Monnet chairs say they encourage full debate on the union, although one has written that when the EU is criticised, ‘our instinct is to defend it’

Data show deep dependence on EU funds by some institutions and subjects

Purchase of research repository has horrified open access advocates who fear acquisition marks attempt to maintain control over publishing

Research councils, Innovate UK and QR funding will be brought under one new body that will also distribute new money for interdisciplinary research

Data on international collaborations hint at importance of place, politics and history

University revises policy after backlash from academics

‘Character education’, a concept that has taken off among schoolteachers, could be coming to higher education

Those judging creative scientific ideas fail to fully understand them, potentially hampering breakthroughs, research indicates

Open University explores whether webcams can be used to monitor learners' facial expressions or eye movements

Almost nine in 10 in staff who took part in online poll do not think the former Ofsted chief is fit to lead institution due to cost-cutting plans

Wellcome Trust Monitor Report finds more certainty about the benefits of breakthroughs, but a mixed picture of general scientific knowledge

Lack of independent working blamed for difficulties making the leap from undergraduate to doctoral work

Reviewing allows us to put collective knowledge ahead of individualised contributions, says David Beer

Academic casts doubt on universities’ spin-off success and impact on SMEs

Russell Group and University Alliance at loggerheads over whether next research excellence framework should assess more at university level

Study also warns that business schools could be producing ever more narcissistic graduates, leading to economic problems in future

Scientific misconduct increasingly studied as example of ‘occupational crime’, researcher says

Hermann Hauser, who led efforts to launch Catapult network of commercialisation centres, sees a major cultural difference between UK and Germany

Wiley and Elsevier attacked over failures to deposit papers as research funder warns it could withdraw funding for hybrid journals

Housing crisis in Oxford, Cambridge and London means the cost of loan and joint equity schemes has tripled in past five years

As the number of papers needing review increases, journals are thinking of replacing a voluntary system with cash rewards

Interviews paint a bleak picture of morale at Yonsei University, raising further concerns about country’s attempt to internationalise

Winston Morgan explores what his career might reveal about the position of ethnic minority academics

Researchers set out how academic insights can build trust between different groups

Conference hears that fundamental skills, rather than specific languages, will serve graduates throughout their careers

Scholars in the UK and Australia contemptuous of impact statements and often exaggerate them, study suggests

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

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

Heather Mendick shares her experience of escaping the constraints of the university

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

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

Patrick O’Malley shares the secrets of his success in the first of a series of blogs from nominees for Most Innovative Teacher of the Year at the THE Awards

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

Jem Bloomfield doesn’t recognise the picture of a higher education system that panders to female students and glories in marginalising their male peers

Leading novelists tell Matthew Reisz about life under the academic spotlight

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

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

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

Disadvantaged are under-represented in degree study because they are ‘simply not smart enough’, says researcher