Merkel’s party pledges to push Germany into R&D spending lead
CDU wants country to invest 3.5 per cent of GDP in research and development – more than twice that of UK
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Poland steps up efforts to track graduate employment
Students embarking on degrees can now find out the likely returns on their different options
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Drive to train next generation of African scientists bears fruit
Twenty-one countries attend annual meeting to showcase progress of multimillion-pound Deltas initiative
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TEF: What do students think of their university’s ratings?
Students from institutions rated gold, silver and bronze express their views on the UK government’s teaching excellence framework (TEF) and consider if it makes a difference to how they view their...
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US public university heads receive 5.3 per cent pay rise
Arizona State University’s Michael Crow was the highest-earning leader in 2015-16
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Asia-Pacific: finding a place at the National University of Singapore
As a female engineer, Rebecca Tan felt there were lots of reasons why the National University of Singapore was the right choice for developing her skills
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First UK-EU branch campus post-Brexit under consideration
King’s College London and TU Dresden ‘Transcampus’ aims to strengthen ties between UK and Germany
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Interview with Richard Lyon
We talk emergency responses to terrorist attacks, geekiness and happy memories of the Olympic Games with Surrey’s professor of medicine
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Arthur Bloom, 1928-2017
Leading geomorphologist who spent his career at Cornell is remembered
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The plight of Libya’s academics should concern us all
The post-Gaddafi chaos has turned some campuses into war zones – with students among the fighters, says Darren Linvill
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A Short History of Medieval Christianity, by G. R. Evans
A slim volume masters a millennium’s worth of material, but women fall away, says Rachel Moss
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Knowing the Score: How Sport teaches us about Philosophy (and Philosophy about Sport), by David Papineau
Lincoln Allison confronts the objectives of an anecdotal and argumentative narrative
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One Another’s Equals: The Basis of Human Equality, by Jeremy Waldron
When considering what exactly makes one creature equal to another, John Shand finds that an animal’s potential holds the key
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Researching singing mice: did you ever hear such a thing in your life?
From the Victorian slum-dwellers whose lives were transformed after they found a warbling rodent, to the jazz-like sound of mouse music, Richard Sugg says that if you take strange stories seriously,...