Dame Ann Dowling makes a case for ‘use-inspired’ research
First female president of the Royal Academy of Engineers hopes to change UK’s ‘sniffiness’ about applied research
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Irish scientists protest ‘funding apartheid’
Hundreds of researchers sign letter warning of cost of focusing exclusively on business-led priorities
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MPs call for major research funding boost
A group of MPs has called on the government to ensure 3 per cent of GDP is invested in research and development by 2020 or risk the UK falling behind
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Strategy 'ignores' HE role in skills provision
The government's skills strategy is disjointed and incomplete because it ignores higher education, the University Vocational Awards Council has said. The strategy fails to recognise the contribution...
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ESRC calls for skills strategy in workplace
Government policies on skills and innovation will not create an economy capable of competing effectively in the global markets, according to a new report. Robert Taylor, media fellow with the...
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Brian Cantor: why I took the Bradford v-c job
The former leader of the University of York on how his new role’s focus on technology made the decision an easy one
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News in brief - 30 October 2014
USS pensionsTobacco investments under attackThe Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) should reconsider its investments in companies that sell tobacco, arms and fossil fuels, a new campaign says....
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Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information, by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Robyn Arianrhod welcomes an unsentimental study of the first woman to win a Nobel prize
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Innovative collaboration
The engineering skills shortage debate has been raised again as the result of a recent report – Excellence in Postgraduate Education: Manufacturing, Materials and Design – published by Cranfield...
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Mock job applications: should they be part of a university degree?
An academic and a graduate give their views on embedding employability into higher education courses
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Catapult centres ‘should number 30 by 2030’
The government should double the annual budget of its innovation agency to £1 billion so it can establish more “Catapult” centres, a new report says
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Campus close-up: Queen Margaret University
A Scottish institution aims to tackle obesity with products developed in a new food innovation centre
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Marking boycott could be suspended next week
UCU to consult on halting action to allow more talks, provided academics’ pay is not docked
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Sir Mark Walport debunks ‘myth’ that he is pushing research agenda
Chief scientific adviser is ‘amused’ by funding conspiracy theories but dismisses them as ‘complete invention’