Minimum income threshold post-Brexit ‘would deter scientists’ Hilary Benn also suggests that UK’s future in Horizon 2020 is not necessarily contingent on free movement Ellie Bothwell 11月 24日
UK to loosen visa rules for graduates and researchers But sector calls for progress on plan to grow overseas student numbers and publication of immigration White Paper John Morgan 11月 24日
Continental researchers lukewarm on UK access to EU funding Survey suggests European scholars are resistant to UK continuing to enjoy full participation in programmes such as Horizon 2020 Simon Baker 11月 24日
Bath v-c narrowly survives vote of no-confidence Senate backs Glynis Breakwell by 19 votes to 16 after controversy over high pay and calls from staff for her to resign Ellie Bothwell 11月 23日
Wellcome Trust explores diversity rules for funding applications Institutions that do not meet standards in areas such as gender may be ineligible for grants Holly Else 11月 23日
Career advice: how to make your university disability-friendly Sally Everett explains how her institution used low-cost and creative measures to transform its support services Sally Everett 11月 23日
Simon Armitage: how I overcame my fear of lecturing The Oxford professor of poetry on returning to ‘exotic’ Leeds, why he’s glad he didn’t study English at university, and the future of literature Jack Grove 11月 23日
USS pension reform plan an ‘undesirable’ and ‘retrograde’ step Pensions expert criticises Universities UK’s ‘outdated’ proposal to end defined benefit scheme for almost 200,000 staff Jack Grove 11月 23日
EU’s ‘Bologna 2.0’ vision threatens to leave UK behind British universities face potential challenges if they are left outside the ‘Sorbonne process’, experts warn Jack Grove 11月 23日
‘LinkedIn degrees’ from global providers ‘could leave UK behind’ Open University vice-chancellor claims that courses curated by technology giants might be more attractive than Russell Group’s offerings Chris Havergal 11月 22日
Oxford v-c: ‘educational divide’ threatens democracy in UK and US Louise Richardson says universities must be fair in admissions and focus on inequality in response to populism John Morgan 11月 22日
Turkey’s rival scientific academies vie for legitimacy Pushed to break away from the established Turkish academy by increasing government control, Bilim Akademisi has now been accepted into the European fold David Matthews 11月 22日