ViewEpidemics coalition backs Oxford’s research on ‘Disease X’

University of Oxford researchers get over £60 million to develop prototype vaccines against unknown diseases

ViewAustralia news roundup: 22-28 August

This week: early career awards, a Swinburne supercomputer and medical research impact

ViewDutch commissioner replacement sparks EU climate fears

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ViewVaccine damages scheme payout should be higher, says researcher

Oxford researcher calls for more clarity and bigger payouts for people harmed by Covid jabs

View‘Growing concern’ over cost of living for French students

Historically high living costs reported, with year-on-year rise of 9 per cent

ViewA-level results: ‘Significant’ fall in nursing students

Acceptances to nursing and teaching courses both fall following growth during Covid-19 pandemic

ViewA-level results: Eight in 10 get place at first choice university

Deflation hits grades but vast majority secure university place

ViewAfrica secures more than half of Gates’ AI innovation grants

Projects aim to build large language models suitable for low- and middle-income countries

ViewWhat universities need to know ahead of A-level results day

How might predicted grade deflation impact on UK institutions?

ViewSummer reads: Using AI in peer review

Tools like ChatGPT can help, but transparency is vital, say Mohammad Hosseini and Serge Horbach

ViewSunak should ‘apologise to uni applicants who fall short’

A-levels: Lib Dems accuse government of incompetence as results day approaches

ViewTrust in science high in Australia, survey finds

National study shows respect for Stem but concern about participation rates

ViewSummer reads: This is what Horizon Europe’s successor should look like

An uncertain future demands a strong commitment to research, say Kurt Deketelaere and Jan Palmowski

ViewCost of living crisis sees students opt to stay at home

Fifth of A-level students going to university decide against moving away during term time

ViewAfrica drops in several health research capacity indicators

WHO report says Covid pandemic may have stalled progress

ViewResearch spending is in free fall, says Universities Australia chair

David Lloyd says Accord process must do more on lifting R&D spending

ViewSummer reads: Reshuffle resolves some tensions but risks creating others

Dsit will aid science policy but poses questions for science advice, says David Willetts

ViewMore young Scottish students get into first choice university

Increase coincides with drop in proportion of pupils awarded A-C grades in Scottish Higher exams

View‘Unhappiness’ ahead for UK university applicants

A-level results likely to be lower this year amid efforts to return to pre-pandemic grading

ViewUK Health Security Agency launches vaccine R&D centre

Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre aims to build on Covid-19 successes to tackle new threats

ViewDNA pens encoding migrant stories sent to UK officials

Science Gallery project explores “human-centred approach in an increasingly digitised immigration system”

ViewAustralia news roundup: 1-7 August

This week: Great Barrier Reef concerns, clinical trial funding and industry-led research

ViewNetherlands news roundup: 29 July to 4 August

This week: Gender inequalities in health, post-Covid research funding, boost for research software efforts

ViewWhat’s going on in Europe: 21 July to 3 August

This week: Ukraine support, Iranian needs, publishing profits and more

ViewUniversities belong in the science department

Higher education should sit with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, says Anastasia Bektimirova

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 27 July to 2 August

This week: a biosecurity push, health service grants and weather forecasting

ViewAFT notes pros and cons of working in China

Universities warned to think carefully before creating links with Chinese institutions

ViewUniversities Accord prompts worries among research sector

Interim report lays out options, but Australian universities say there’s a long road yet

ViewItaly news roundup: 14-27 July

This week: contract killings and a Bologna postdoc set free