Advantage Britain: ruling the education world post-Brexit
With the right strategies, becoming the leading country for scholarship and science is within the UK’s grasp, says Jamie Martin

With the right strategies, becoming the leading country for scholarship and science is within the UK’s grasp, says Jamie Martin

Five engineers set out why engineering is part of our everyday lives and what universities can do to change the way it is taught

World-leading institutions will require greater funding, internationalisation and autonomy, says C. Raj Kumar

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A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

America is head and shoulders above other nations in attracting and retaining prizewinning scientists

Gayle Munro on the disparaging comment that fuelled her thesis and the perception that non-traditional doctoral students lack commitment
Universities are not teaching factories. They are spaces of critical thinking and debate. Academic freedom cannot survive in a state of perpetual fear. Yet this is a pretty concise description of the...
The ongoing spiel you hear from employers is that graduates lack the skills they need to succeed in the workplace. I wonder if we’ve produced graduates in recent years who have highly specialised...
Readers may have gained a false impression from the article “Foreign LSE scholars ‘stopped from briefing government on Brexit’” (7 October). It reported claims that the Foreign and Commonwealth...
The headline for the article on universities sponsoring schools overstates the difference between the vice-chancellors from the University of Oxford and Nottingham Trent University (“Oxford’s vice-...
The issue of whether attendance at lectures should be compulsory cannot be an either/or argument (“Should student attendance in classes be compulsory?”, News, 20 October). Some professional bodies...

Campus violence could halt the homeward flow of the internationally mobile researchers South Africa’s academy needs