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Research council leader warns UK lacks enough PhDs in “key areas” amid rising training costs
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Aria steps up AI for science push with new top-level role
Funding agency creates chief AI scientist position, focused on accelerating speed of research
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First full Europe-China space mission lifts off
European Space Agency “excited” by first collaboration with China to run from conception to operation
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‘EU Inc must help university startups and spinouts’
Cesaer university group suggests amendments to Commission’s proposal to foster new companies
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Mergers challenge ‘richness’ of UK university sector
Mergers could become more common, but institutions see risks to finance and identity
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Frustration as research council rejects preliminary submissions en masse due to “unprecedented demand”
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Tories would cut creative arts to ‘rebalance’ higher education
Conservatives say they would “end funding for low-value degrees” and expand apprenticeships
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France and Switzerland to be consulted on potential €16 billion Future Circular Collider
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Research heavyweights urge EU to shore up academic freedom
G6 announces plans for coordinated effort to protect threatened researchers and invest in research infrastructure
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Read more on Australian Research Council bids vetoed on security grounds
Education minister nixes 13 applications to three of the funder’s schemes
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Australian budget boosts medical research and Csiro
Treasurer delivers positives for health fund and science agency, but university commercialisation programme is discontinued
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Read more on South African university struggles to halt academic exodus
Vice-chancellor tells MPs University of KwaZulu-Natal’s plan to reverse “decline” will need years
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Universities and students decry student fund takeover
Placing NSFAS under administration repeats previous failed efforts to steady aid body, warn sector leaders
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Read more on Outrage over ‘Friday night massacre’ of US science board
Thousands of National Academy members and supporters call on Congress to reinstate culled NSF advisers
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Democrats ‘appalled’ at pick to lead Kennedy Space Center
Concerns raised over appointment of “de facto” director and further “shrinkage” of Nasa Goddard
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Read more on Assessment reform guide hailed as a ‘gamechanger’
Guide for research funders aims to encourage collaboration and catalyse change
ViewDiamond open access ‘needs predictable public funding’
Diamond open access ‘needs predictable public funding’
Roadmap for scholarly publishing model urges systemic shifts in funding and evaluation processes
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Read more on British Council office in Ukraine ‘severely damaged’ in strikes
Russian attack, which also damaged EU delegation in Kyiv, branded “unacceptable” by UK government
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Stop laundering research from Ukraine’s stolen institutions
Publishing Russian-affiliated papers from occupied territories amounts to misinformation, say Alex Plastun and Serhiy Kozmenko
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Earma 2026: Senior figures say profession can help shape future of European funding
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‘Research could be sabotaged by flood of low-quality clutter’
Earma 2026: Research managers can help combat new risk to research security, expert says
