Scale of unsuccessful funding bids will be ‘dispiriting’ for researchers and raises questions about ‘substantial differences’ in research landscape, Oxford professor warns
Sally Mapstone on why university funding problems are too urgent for ‘something more radical’ or a review – and what she really thinks about corduroy
The general secretary’s visibility makes her a natural target for discontent, but many of the blunders arose from committee decisions, says Dyfrig Jones
Publishers face being ‘mere service providers’ under new vision, but critics question whether global adoption of proposals will be any wider than their predecessors