ViewLow expectations

The UK’s financial black hole may be bigger than imagined. So what next for universities?

ViewFight against cancer ramps up

Signs are positive that Biden’s relaunched Cancer Moonshot can have a significant impact on health

ViewCalls for better funding for counselling services

Irish students in greater need of emotional care, prompting pressure on existing services

ViewOld problems

The TUC research adult learners, while university lobby groups gear up for the chancellor’s statement

ViewSpending and stability

Erica Conway lays out what universities want from the chancellor’s autumn budget

ViewNetherlands news roundup: 5-11 November

This week: tackling abuse of researchers, plugging skills gap and research assessment pact sign-up

ViewRussell Group to match UKRI stipend boost for PhDs

Research-intensive universities to increase postgraduate research stipends as part of wider support for struggling students

ViewMy winning proposal: The tadpole doctor pays a visit

Public engagement in science often needs to be fun, even when the topic isn't

ViewPreprints and journals should be a happy marriage

The research system needs speedy and rigorous communication channels working in tandem, says Gregory Gordon

ViewWhat’s going on in Europe: 28 October to 9 November

This week: Russian fusion collaboration, inflation pressures, cybersecurity warning and more

ViewAfrica’s research universities are rising

Continent’s top institutions have advanced despite the pandemic, data shows

ViewIn advance

The OfS and Hepi publish reports on sexual harassment and governance respectively

ViewCreate vaccines for Africa from Africa, conference told

“Local capacity solves local problems” says Aspen head of strategic trade development

ViewDuck soup

One minister departs, another joins, everyone is on strike, and Chris Skidmore is back

ViewBBSRC ‘must embrace diversity’, says its executive chair

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council head wants diversity in ideas, expertise and teams

ViewSkills needed for research administration ‘have changed’

SRAI 2022: Research administrators told they must be more flexible and focused on impact

ViewSunak to chair National Science and Technology Council

Prime minister brings back top-level NSTC, but space and Covid-19 committees still absent

ViewIncomes and outcomes

What do Bank of England interest rates and regulator demands mean for universities?

ViewItaly news roundup: 21 October to 3 November

This week: an undersecretary for research and unvaccinated doctors

ViewResearch matters

A Heif uplift for commercialisation and a Hepi report on research leadership land this morning

ViewRoger Glass: The people we fund end up on the front lines

Fogarty centre director proud that the people his initiative trains are leading Africa’s Covid-19 response

View‘Key’ for research managers to embrace remote methods

SRAI 2022: Delivering clinical research online “can improve efficiency and access to participants”

ViewUK universities are losing their edge in research

Long-term projects may fare better in standalone labs insulated from audit culture, says Martin Rees

ViewThe Third Degree

Back page gossip from the 2 November issue of Research Fortnight

ViewInquiry report

The NUS has sacked its president following an inquiry into alleged antisemitism

ViewOxford team gets $3m for pandemic preparedness platform

Rockefeller Foundation money will help expand open-source platform for infectious disease data

ViewIOP Publishing launches new environmental journal

First papers published in Environmental Research: Health, journal devoted to interface of environment and health

ViewRemember, remember, the 17th of November

How bad could things get for UKRI grant-making during the new austerity?

ViewMEPs visit Budapest to probe academic freedom concerns

Head of delegation says MEPs want to examine Hungarian situation “with our own eyes”

ViewTech academy calls for action to fix Australia’s ‘skills crisis’

Report warns of inadequate training and retention of engineers, causing shortage