Frozen toothpaste and a warming planet: why we camped out in Davos
It is vital for academics to speak science to power, from bona fide billionaires to hard-pressed policymakers, says?Stuart Brocklehurst
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Ninth-graders guaranteed admission under Fresno access scheme
University hopes to build ‘culture of college-going’ with early offers to local high?schoolers
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UAE looks to increase demand for science among industry
Minister says a new strategy and government restructure will ensure a continuous push towards a ‘robust science and technology ecosystem’ in the Emirates
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UCU challengers: the candidates trying to unseat Jo Grady
Union members?voting on who should be next general secretary, with incumbent under pressure from all sides?
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The view from industry
Increased precision, good science and technical rigour are essential to risk-based decision-making. But by themselves they are not enough. People's values can dominate their feelings about a level of...
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UK plans national academy for mathematics
Government hopes new institution will help to upskill the country’s workforce and grow the economy
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Interview with Mesias Alfeus
The senior lecturer in financial risk management discusses his academic career around the world, his admiration for Galileo and how a traditional game inspired his love of mathematics
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It is time for open access to move on from institutional repositories
The British Library cyber-attack underlines that?HE?and research libraries’ technologies and policies put us at too much risk, says?Fiona Greig
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US mounts dramatic pivot to ‘place-based industrial policy’
Land of the free market outpaces UK’s muted ‘levelling up’ with?funding to leverage power of universities in struggling regions
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The industrial evolution
Can Darwinism be applied to technological innovation? John Ziman examines the analogy between biological and cultural evolution. Go to a technology museum, and look at the bicycles. Then go to a...
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Can internationalisation save South Korea’s emptying universities?
As the domestic youth population plummets, Korean institutions are looking to international students to make up shortfalls. But can such a strategy compensate – and can it be enacted in time? Pola...
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UCU Left’s Trotskyist politics are driving UK HE’s perennial strikes
Elitist, undemocratic activists’ revolutionary aspirations explain their enthusiasm for futile industrial action, say John Kelly and Adam Ozanne
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Research intelligence - A shift from tactics to strategy
It’s time for physics to make a big bang, the woman from the ministry tells Elizabeth Gibney
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Consultancy is the unsung hero of university innovation. Let’s do more
Consultancy not only transcends disciplinary boundaries within universities, but also between academia, industry and other actors, says?Amanda Zeffman?
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Grady: don’t make staff pay price for UK sector ‘cannibalisation’
Union ready to ‘robustly protect education’ amid widespread job cuts, as leader changes tone ahead of re-election battle