Major gift bankrolls ‘second renaissance’ for Warburg Institute
Ambitious plans should enable research centre to apply its unique insights to ‘contemporary cultural, political and social understanding’
Ambitious plans should enable research centre to apply its unique insights to ‘contemporary cultural, political and social understanding’
There is still much controversy about whether the virus that causes Covid-19 was released from a laboratory. David Sanders considers the nature of ‘gain-of-function’ research, what it can teach us –...
Artificial intelligence will soon be able to research and write essays as well as humans can. So will genuine education be swept away by a tidal wave of cheating – or is AI just another technical aid...
The retiring UBC scientist on inspirational partners, the precarious state of career options, and the formative value of stink bombs
Perhaps, says Duncan Angwin – but probably not with an institution of similar size and standing, and not without long-term staff buy-in
As online shopping and pandemic leave swathe of retail units vacant, universities are urged to seize chance for space and civic roles
Just 9 per cent of coronavirus papers have made efforts to help replication of experiments, European Commission open science champion tells summit
LSE’s iconic Economists’ Bookshop is latest casualty but scholars and booksellers insist the university bookstore still matters
Employers, universities and students are demanding bilateral recognition of Indian qualifications. Eldho Mathews explains why it matters
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
After yet another minister falls to a plagiarism scandal, observers lament that a long German tradition of doctorates has descended into academic ‘credentialism’
Technical incompatibilities and privacy law risk preventing universities communicating to optimise individualised learning, says Gerd Kortemeyer
John Gilbey is fascinated by a richly detailed account of attempts to reach the holy grail of technological innovation
A video by a professor for only their class is akin to the single-copy, handwritten book disseminated to just one room of people, says David Kellermann