New Danish government ends budget squeeze – except for humanities New Social Democrat administration drops annual 2 per cent saving target, but could end teaching subsidy for humanities and social sciences By David Matthews 7 October
The Italian miracle is an illusion Improved citation performance amid falling funding is the result of gaming, say Alberto Baccini, Eugenio Petrovich and Giuseppe De Nicolao By Alberto Baccini 7 October
Death of the monograph greatly exaggerated, say academics Report suggests researchers feel there is no substitute for the traditional book-length contribution to knowledge By Matthew Reisz 4 October
MEPs supportive of research chief’s drive to close east-west gap Some parliamentarians hope Bulgaria’s Mariya Gabriel will reshape the EU’s new research package to spread grants more evenly across the continent By David Matthews 4 October
REF should accommodate more diverse outputs, says study Report for Research England warns assessment may be constraining academics' publishing options By Chris Havergal 4 October
UUK president aims to show degree value ‘not all about money’ Julia Buckingham also aims to protect funding, as response to Augar review is debated By John Morgan 3 October
Most European campuses ‘use journal impact factor to judge staff’ Preliminary results of EUA survey suggest three-quarters of responding institutions draw on much-criticised metric By Anna McKie 3 October
Matthew Hedges: universities fail to protect staff working abroad Researcher held in UAE for five months suggests commercial relationships may trump concern for researchers’ well-being By Ellie Bothwell 3 October
Moedas: Europe should lead negotiations with academic publishers Outgoing commissioner frustrated that countries still strike deals on a country-by-country basis By David Matthews 2 October
Tory manifesto tipped to focus on ‘low?value degrees’ in England Ministers expected to reject Augar fee cut plan, raising question of what will be election offer on university fees and funding By John Morgan 2 October
‘Human error’ blamed for union’s Holocaust email omitting Jews UCU says ‘incomplete version’ of circular detailing plans for Holocaust Memorial Day was sent out By Anna McKie 1 October
Conservative conference: minister wants multi-year research funding framework Chris Skidmore tells Tory conference meeting he wants UK research funding to emulate EU’s approach By John Morgan 1 October
