Patrick Vallance hits pause on Research Excellence Framework
Science minister announces review of controversial changes to research environment assessment
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Times Higher Education Awards 2025: shortlist announced
Scores of institutions shortlisted across 21 categories as ceremony for coveted sector prizes heads to Scotland for the first time
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Australia running out of ‘most needed’ science skills
Country will lack the expertise to achieve next-generation priorities if funding left at mercy of undergraduate enrolments, Academy of Science analysis finds
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Let’s help emerging superstars in the humanities shine
Vibrant academic communities in all parts of the UK will allow rising stars of humanities and social sciences to shine, says Alex Lewis
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Culture change needed as Korea trains foreign students as carers
Universities to offer degree programmes dedicated to caring for ageing population but critics say migrant workers still face too much abuse
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UK research ‘strongly aligned to Labour policy missions’
Analysis of publications shows influence of research on government, with under-pressure humanities departments often having the most impact
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Don’t dither on updating trans policies, EHRC chair tells v-cs
Head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission urges institutions to take steps to comply with Supreme Court ruling
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Can universities unfreeze China’s graduate job market?
China’s post-pandemic economic slowdown is continuing to depress the graduate job market – and graduates themselves. But while the government looks to universities to address the malaise, many...
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Access, not ardour, governs disabled students’ choices
Just being there is the best many can hope for, says disabled students’ advocate
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Regional economies ‘hardest hit by proposed fee levy’
Big cities outside London ‘do not pull their weight’ in the innovation economy, warns Centre for Cities report
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Split views about universities ‘risk tearing them apart’
Social licence ‘more fragile than people realise’ in a world where populism rules, science diplomat warns
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Canadian universities at a ‘crossroads’, says new U15 chair
World in ‘flux’ makes it very difficult to predict what’s coming but research-intensive grouping ‘prepared for anything’, according to Daniel Jutras