Simon Baker discovers what the World Economic Forum’s ‘community’ of universities – the Global University Leaders Forum (GULF) – can teach us about industry-academia collaboration and innovation with...
Introduced to help boost technology transfer amid renewed political focus on ‘industrial strategy’, the KEF aims to complement the REF and TEF. But how will it work? Is it even necessary? And is the...
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The feature “Censors and sensitivities” (4 January) explored the question “how can scholars tackle the rise of Chinese censorship in the West?”. The key issue is not really that difficult for anyone...
In the feature “A bit on the side” (18 January), academics discussed their excursions beyond disciplinary boundaries. As a latecomer to the academic pursuit of computer science (having had a...
It is unfortunate that Stuart Wrigley’s attempt to argue that “there is no such thing as critical thinking” betrayed a significant lack of critical thinking (“The write way to think”, Opinion, 4 ...
In his HE & me interview (News, 18 January), Richard Barbrook, senior lecturer in the department of politics and international relations at the University of Westminster and a digital democracy...
Knowledge exchange sits low on academia’s menu, overshadowed by meatier mains, but could the assessment of universities’ third-stream activities tempt some to make it a signature dish?
David Pitt-Watson and Hari Mann believe there could be a way to settle the ongoing pensions row amicably
Denmark is not receiving repayments from 40 per cent of EU loan recipients from 2016
Egypt hopes UK outposts will support its internationalisation strategy and labour market demands