ViewUKRI to axe about £60m in QR funds on top of £120m aid cuts

Blow comes as reductions to funder’s overseas aid allocations revealed to be 70 per cent

ViewBank calls for huge expansion of National Growth Fund

Next government should invest €4.5 billion a year through R&D and infrastructure fund, says Rabobank

ViewPapers and prizes

The OfS releases papers and we ask whether higher and further education can be friends

ViewEIC launch ‘completes EU R&D landscape’, says von der Leyen

Politicians hail ‘incredible’ European Innovation Council, which will invest €10 billion in science-based businesses

ViewOpportunity profile: Pilot Embo scheme encourages fresh ideas

Short-term travel fellowships encourage young life-sciences researchers to explore new directions

ViewDitching predicted grades ‘could do more harm than good’

Senior higher education figures debate merits of a post-qualification admissions system

ViewOur winning proposals: Get the intel

For a UK Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, get the background on the decision-makers

ViewKwasi Kwarteng still negotiating UKRI’s 2021-22 budget

Business secretary is keen for resolution but warns of ‘unprecedented pressure’ on finances

ViewEurope funding at a glance: 5-18 March

This week: calls for translational cancer research, social impacts of Covid-19, and childhood brain development

ViewFunder profile: London Mathematical Society

Counting the ways one of the UK’s learned societies for maths supports researchers

ViewWorld news roundup: 12-18 March

This week: WHO reassures over vaccine safety, Russia and China seek lunar alliances and more

ViewSouth Africa’s higher education ministry ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’

University grants and support for unemployed youth cut to fund cash-strapped students

ViewFund honours Zimbabwean health researcher

Covid-19 claimed life of renowned scientist James Hakim

ViewStar-light express

Construction is ramping up at Calabria’s first X-ray facility to make up for Covid-19 delays

ViewSearch continues for Italian research council president

Government reopens job posting after Massimo Inguscio’s term ended in February without replacement

ViewItaly news roundup: 5-18 March

This week: sustainability in Milan, telecoms PhDs and Roma Sapienza beats Oxford in classical studies

ViewBog-standard

We hear from competing voices on Aria, while Hepi tackles university admissions

ViewSolloway: Aria will not be tied to specific remit or purpose

Advanced Research and Invention Agency will meet UK’s ‘obligation’ to try different things, minister says

ViewResearch libraries propose European open-access law

Law intended to enshrine right to open publication of research papers in repositories without embargo

ViewEU medicines regulator says vaccine pauses could harm trust

Warning comes as many European countries stop using AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine pending a safety review

ViewVirtual training for student nurses gets £15m boost

Government funding can be used to buy equipment such as smartphones and manikins

ViewHow do you run the REF in a pandemic? We still don’t know

Pre-Covid approach to evaluation won’t necessarily work this time, say Gemma Derrick and Julie Bayley

ViewIn with the old

A modern subject gets a traditional treatment

ViewFrance news roundup: 11-17 March

This week: a science newsletter, virtual Brain Awareness Week and “odious” posters at Grenoble

View‘We need a new funding model yesterday,’ says education union

Minister urged to provide immediate support and reforms to save New Zealand’s campuses and courses

ViewIgnoble Britain

Cuts to aid-funded research programmes are a disgrace

ViewUniversities face brewing row over pay deal

Union members ‘overwhelmingly reject pay offer’ as pensions battle heats up again

ViewAria solo

The research investment debate continues and the OfS warns universities against student over-recruitment

ViewDemand for European medical patents up amid overall decline

Total applications fell 0.7 per cent, while the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields surged

ViewGermany news roundup: 10-16 March

This week: health networks find home, academic freedom and funds for Covid-19 social impact