DfE ‘bends over backwards’ to help England’s biggest for-profit Officials give GSM green light for public funding despite knowing of its financial worries, while ministers ‘refuse to back public universities’ John Morgan 11月 22日
Boris Paton: I may be turning 100, but I’m not retiring yet After spending a century in and around academia, Ukraine’s chief scientist reflects on his father’s ‘genius’, Chernobyl and how scientists helped to win the Second World War Jack Grove 11月 22日
Black academics ‘paid thousands of pounds less’ than white peers Major Ucea study finds ethnic minority staff suffer ‘significant pay penalties’ relative to white male staff with equivalent academic backgrounds Jack Grove 11月 22日
James Stirling, 1953-2018 Tributes paid to leading physicist who became first provost of Imperial College London Matthew Reisz 11月 22日
Durham student jailed for life by UAE court on spying charges Matthew Hedges, a PhD student specialising in Middle Eastern politics, was detained at Dubai airport on 5 May and held in solitary confinement Rachael Pells 11月 21日
First university visit to Auschwitz aims to combat antisemitism Students’ union leaders and university staff visit former Nazi concentration camp to help stamp out discrimination on UK campuses Ellie Bothwell 11月 21日
UK research council ‘misleading’ on quality of doctoral training Fewer than half of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s Centres for Doctoral Training rated ‘good’ Rachael Pells 11月 21日
Grade inflation: how certain subjects fuel rise in firsts Data analysis by 91茄子 looks at three disciplines where the rise in firsts has been particularly high Simon Baker 11月 21日
Turkey’s reinstated academics face internal exile Scholars allowed back to work might not be able not return to previous institutions or large cities, Science Academy warns David Matthews 11月 21日
Where there is discretion over academic freedom, there will be error Mistakenly labelling material as ‘security-sensitive’ has created a space to learn, says Robert Van De Noort Robert Van de Noort 11月 21日
UK research spending target: show us the money, says Nobelist ‘Aspiration is not enough’, says Sir Paul Nurse of goal to spend 2.4 per cent of GDP on R&D Rachael Pells 11月 20日
Weaknesses of English student protection plans highlighted Office for Students says it will require some institutions to revise their contingency plans for closure Anna McKie 11月 20日