Visas: closing off opportunities to collaborate
Paul Wordsworth warns that the privatisation of visa applications is hampering academics’ ability to be part of an international community

Paul Wordsworth warns that the privatisation of visa applications is hampering academics’ ability to be part of an international community

Planning to win top laurels is a fool’s errand, so how should research be structured to best produce far-reaching results?

A much-cited engineering researcher whose systems of prototyping helped to produce safer cars has died

Funding burden will shift from Länder to federal government in €825m overhaul. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports

The academic discipline is invaluable in detecting and debunking myths about the past and future, say Jo Guldi and David Armitage

Four scientists reflect on the perks and drawbacks that go hand in hand with winning the most prized prize

We speak to Jonathan Baker, who has joined the University of Essex as its founding professor of journalism

Lack of diversity and intolerance of minorities are disputed by groups of students at Colgate University, New York State

After a troubled recent history, the new university has a former diplomat as its new vice-chancellor

United StatesSpeaking up for safetyThe White House has launched a campaign to raise public awareness of sexual assault on campus. The “It’s On Us” campaign encourages students to intervene in...

Institutions have long served as community anchors, and their role in local growth has scope to expand, says Madeleine Atkins

Alan Ryan on fears that Silicon dreams and start-ups might leave humanities in the dark

ÜberResearch unveils Dimensions for Funders, a digital tool detailing grant awards from 66 major funders

Eminent sociologist Ken Plummer captures 50 tales of a groundbreaking department

University of West London conference on the work of Roger Brown hears of the drawbacks of higher education marketisation