Top UK laboratories adjust as Wellcome Trust cuts core funding
World-leading research institutes are switching focus and seeking new funds as core funding for Wellcome centres dries up
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PhDs: is doctoral education in trouble in the UK?
While overseas students still flock to the UK for PhDs, concerns are growing over weakening domestic demand, a decline in UKRI-funded starters and whether universities can afford to train the next...
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Venture science doctorate reorientates PhDs towards start-ups
Reimagined PhD that provides students with business training and industry contacts is attracting interest from governments and science philanthropists
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Open science ‘has turned Dutch research funding into lottery’
Leading cell biologist says outstanding young researchers are missing out on funding as panellists are focusing excessively on open science contributions
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Interview with Barbara Savage
The biographer of the first black American woman to study at Oxford discusses life in segregated schools in the South, why affirmative action still matters and ‘election-style’ efforts to unseat...
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Freeman: UK will never be science superpower behind visa paywall
The former science minister talks to Jack Grove about his concerns over recent visa reforms and his ‘lonely battle’ to keep Britain in Horizon Europe
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Cambridge pro vice-chancellor to lead BBSRC
Geneticist Anne Ferguson-Smith is the third new female leader of a UK research council named in recent weeks
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Times Higher Education’s most-read articles of 2023
International students, post-study work visas and opinion pieces captured readers’ attention this year
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Know what you’re for, and deliver – THE Awards winners’ secrets
Winning entrants focused their efforts where the need was greatest and embraced innovation to maximise impact
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REF 2029: loose Hesa rules ‘risk return of game-playing’
Year-long delay to the next Research Excellence Framework must be used to correct fundamental flaws of proposed exercise, say sector experts
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King’s College London Portsmouth branch campus to train doctors
Russell Group university will treble its graduate medicine intake by training students on England’s south coast
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Medical researchers accept industry perks worth millions
Scholars advocate creation of global database after analysing scale of travel, free meals and gifts disbursed by medical sector in France
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Music helps sociologists to hit high notes
The unexpectedly musical background of many sociologists might explain their academic success, Glasgow professor argues
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Scholars ‘stumble through’ as British Library tools stay offline
Loss of access to EThOS archive of 600,000 doctoral dissertations causes major disruption for PhD students