UK government ‘fully endorses’ university-industry report
Dame Ann Dowling’s report called public support for collaboration ‘excessively complex’
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EU lets Switzerland stay in Horizon 2020
Swiss agree ‘light’ implementation of anti-immigration vote under threat of expulsion from EU research programme
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The students and staff who spend Christmas Day on campus
There will be thousands of people on campuses on Christmas Day this year, as Geri Ward explains
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Universities host pre-Trump archiving events to save US climate data
Toronto and Pennsylvania researchers arrange events to preserve environmental data
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Nigerian government to investigate Goodluck Jonathan’s universities
Nine institutions opened by former president will be scrutinised for corrupt practices
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US universities still lead China on joint research with industry
Lack of trust and a weak IP system blamed for China’s weaker engagement with industry
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Are science stereotypes shaped by comics?
Comic strips present a rich, varied – and surprising – picture of life on campus, researchers have found, but also may explain prejudices
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Interview with Jeremy Irons
We talk to the new chancellor of Bath Spa University about censorship, Brideshead Revisited and why campuses should be a place for outrage
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Ian Bryden, 1958-2016
A leading researcher in the field of renewable energy has died
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New Cambridge librarian looks to take scholarship to the world
Jessica Gardner, only the second woman in the role, aims to strike a balance between the needs of undergraduates and the global research community
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Even top teachers ‘not recognised or compensated’, warns research
Research-intensive universities may not be matching rhetoric with actions on teaching support
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Wole Soyinka: how to detoxify young minds from indoctrination
With Africa’s campuses beset by religious zealotry, Wole Soyinka suggests universities provide a year of materialist induction to free students of dogma and extremism
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A Campus Christmas Carol
A Dickensian tale, set in today’s university
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Spam emails difficult to suppress, finds study
Chances are you’ll get at least a bit of ‘spam dressed as lamb’ this Christmas
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Is teaching in research universities actually research-led?
Study into the experiences of universities’ top teaching faculty is revealing about the real priorities, says Holly Else