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Thinktank advocates Swedish-style ¡®professors¡¯ privilege¡¯ model to boost commercialisation efforts

The interim report¡¯s focus on engagement with Australian communities risks overlooking obligations to the rest of the world, says Craig Jeffrey

Academics say university is the ideal time to launch a company

Such talk replaces pride of place with ¡®know your place¡¯. But if you want to see levelling up made flesh, come and meet our graduates, says John Raftery 

Ambitions to boost institutional profiles will fail unless academics are motivated, trained and rewarded to take the initiative, says Sheldon Jacobson

Researchers can help policymakers get to grips with what is and isn¡¯t possible in areas such as hydrogen fuel production, says Tracey Brown

First-time universities can now sign up to participate, while others can confirm their registration for another year 

International collaboration on tackling global problems has never been more important, say Chris Husbands and John Dewar 

It is widely accepted that Indian curricula need to become more relevant. Links with the business community are key, says Amarjit Singh

With a UK general election potentially less than a year away, there is no better time for academics to influence political thinking, says ex-MP Natascha Engel

Organisers look to expand programme beyond existing 110 UK-Ukraine partnerships into Europe and North America

As Australia and Canada lead the overall table, THE data show universities worldwide grappling with the affordable housing crisis and demands to divest away from fossil fuels

Three Australian and four Canadian institutions among top 10 of THE ranking exploring progress of universities worldwide towards achieving SDGs

Science may be the best tool humanity has to improve our social conditions ¨C but we must steer it in the right direction, writes Carolina Torrealba

Reaching out to a trusted community reminded Karen Spierling why she values academia enough to defend it in the public arena

The banning of scientific messages about risks in pregnancy is yet another damaging imposition on academia, says Roohola Ramezani

Experts must push back against politicians who feel free to supplant or distort their views for ideological gain, says Arthur Caplan

Disparities of wealth are becoming ever more extreme, yet researchers continue to focus their attention on the poor, laments Michael Marinetto

Rare involvement of learned academy in establishing ¡®reasonable doubt¡¯ over child murder conviction paves way for mechanisms to forestall future injustices

Commercialising research is daunting. Academic founders can¡¯t and shouldn¡¯t be expected to do this alone, say Diarmuid O¡¯Brien and Maina Bhaman

Protests target wealthy campuses over housing policies and lack of action on crime and community well-being

The India-born, CUNY-based expert on light-matter interaction discusses his work to help school students share his sense of excitement

A COP-style UN forum to coordinate and promote public education could help prevent natural hazards from becoming disasters, says Afroz Shah

Trailblazing physicist Donna Strickland hopes new institute will tackle waning public trust in science

As fierce partisanship silences US academics, a fired leader gets an even bigger job that rewards his resistance

With the right policies in place, the university can repeat the past 25 years¡¯ economic return within the next decade, says Anthony Freeling

Agents posing as students will look for a wide range of legal violations, with for-profit sector especially alarmed

We need to find mechanisms to plug in relevant humanities and social sciences from the very beginning of projects, says Christina Boswell

Post-industrial regions the world over are pinning their hopes on universities to reboot them as prosperous innovation economies. But questions remain about the depth and breadth of the high-tech dividend. John Morgan travels to Pennsylvania to examine the acclaimed example of Pittsburgh

Australian armed forces need new blood but are also keen on exchange, says Tanya Monro

NSF Regional Innovation Engines scheme is place-based push to secure US strength in key technologies

Better alignment of pay and benefits, working cultures and expectations will clear the way for research to have impact, say nine Future Leaders fellows

Analysis of the database suggests UK universities take greater equity in spin-outs than others in Europe

UK sector retains positive reputation among general public as a whole, but authors of report caution over increasingly negative views among parts of population

Low-key bridge-building exercises can initiate relationships with civil servants, parliamentary clerks and regulatory officials, says Matthew Flinders

Academics must learn about the policymaking landscape and identify the key people to build relationships with, says Natascha Engel

Blockbuster payout from landmark Oxford-AstraZeneca jab likely to highlight commercial potential of university-led innovation

Cardiff University academic Flint Dibble says the popularity of Netflix show Ancient Apocalypse means non-engagement is no longer possible

Casual encounters are a chance to correct the public's irritating assumption that political science is all about elections, says Christopher Hallenbrook

Education helps a person escape poverty. It doesn¡¯t directly, in the short run, combat poverty. That requires a wider coalition, says Jonathan Gyurko

The divestment movement can claim victory. But what about all the companies that enable fossil fuel exploitation, asks Zak Coleman

London South Bank students will offer information on reducing consumption, cutting bills and improving efficiency

Quitting Twitter lost Christopher Schaberg some connections. But the pleasures of in-person interaction far outweigh the regrets

Sector-wide guidelines on sharing and discussing research online would also be very useful, says Laura Hassink 

But institutions will contribute much more to both their localities and their planet if they collaborate more, says Simone Buitendijk

Social science papers employ more rigour than policy documents do but need to be more reader-friendly, says Tim Blackman

Saying that you stand with Ukraine while glossing over the situation in Hong Kong is untenable, says Phil Chan

NCUB report finds patent registrations and spinouts trended positive in 2020-21, but knowledge exchange income slumped

Leaders should model thoughtful, respectful disagreement and bridge divisions in ideologies, say Teresa Valerio Parrot and Ali Lincoln

Central reporting depersonalises attacks and helps police spot patterns, according to prominent vaccine scholar who has faced threats

Sector should use review to break free from internal preoccupation and ¡®utilitarian¡¯ focus on private domestic benefit, conference hears

Move seen as a way of strengthening links between academia and policymakers to ensure parliamentarians have access to latest scholarship

Difficult decisions require uncomfortable truths, epidemiologist tells Pacific Rim universities

If government sets clear ambitions, innovation follows from the private sector and charities ¨C not the other way round, says Ian Walker

Science and technology investment fund created by universities of Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield injects first capital to fuel innovation shift

The mature student specialist¡¯s renowned politics department could become part of the solution rather than the problem, says Matthew Flinders

Twitter trolls and polarised debate on Covid have caused almost one in four academics to scale back public engagement, says Elsevier study

Suella Braverman¡¯s threats to ¡®significantly reduce¡¯ international student numbers are a direct threat to growth, says Keith Burnett 

Academics must work closely with students to foster innovation, says KAUST president

After spikes in participation in recent polls, students¡¯ role as a key voting bloc is under increased scrutiny in upcoming elections