‘Set clear boundaries’ for healthy industry-academia partnerships
Companies must understand that it is not the job of a university to conduct commercial product development, summit hears
Companies must understand that it is not the job of a university to conduct commercial product development, summit hears
Backed by state government, an ambitious university-led initiative is aiming to restore the Ruhr Valley’s former industrial glory. John Morgan meets academics behind the experiment in driving...
The pandemic has exposed some anglophone universities’ financial over-reliance on overseas students. But if internationalisation takes a step back in the coming years, how much will be lost...
As Maastricht University celebrates its 45th anniversary, it is tapping into its founding spirit in a bid to stay forever young, says its president, Martin Paul
LSE’s iconic Economists’ Bookshop is latest casualty but scholars and booksellers insist the university bookstore still matters
Netherlands government’s package of support for students and universities comes as calls for fee refunds mount in England
Historic in-house press at Massachusetts Institute of Technology asking libraries for participant fee to enable titles to become publicly available
The proposed Turing scheme will be hard to set up – especially given its lack of reciprocity, says Martin Paul
The holy grail of a business model for open access monographs that works at scale for publishers, libraries and scholars is close, says Martin Paul Eve
Neoliberal administrators’ policing of institutional reputations and academic colleagues’ condemnation of dissenting voices on issues such as race and gender have led to claims that scholars are...
Insistence on ‘excellent’ research is commonplace, but Europe’s biggest funders warn that it can damage integrity and foster ruthless competition when poorly defined
Cross-border knowledge sharing is core to higher education and must be preserved, say 33 university leaders in a joint statement on global academic mobility
Proposals to mandate open access monographs from 2024 will make it harder to publish and will limit career chances, says professor
Proposed new law not as tough as some feared – but critics argue focus on Dutch ignores benefits of studying in English
Pan-continental prosperity will suffer if the UK’s near-absence from the European University project is a sign of things to come, says Martin Paul