ViewMost read 2021: Five stories that shaped UK research

Aid cuts, Brexit and research culture feature in our most-read UK stories of the year

ViewEngineering firms identify skills gap among graduate recruits

Less than half of UK engineering recruits have necessary skills, survey finds

View2021: Another strange year

Australia and New Zealand spent the year planning, reviewing, appointing ministers and fretting about borders

ViewUniversities step up to the plate in booster jab push

Institutions across the UK set up vaccination centres

ViewEurope funding at a glance: 3-16 December

This week: Horizon Europe calls, Spanish reforms, new Cost priorities and more

ViewUS news roundup: 10-16 December

This week: acting NIH director welcomed, foreign talent ban removed and blockchain’s educational potential mooted

ViewActions on access

Richard Boffey makes four suggestions for how higher education can contribute to levelling up

ViewThe value of evaluation

A growing concern about research metrics is causing Italy’s researchers to question funding decisions

ViewThe only way is up

What could an unexpected increase in inflation mean for universities?

View€142m for knowledge transfer into clinical use

France announces 17 winners of “translational medical research” call to improve takeup of results

ViewAxing Valneva contract ‘short sighted’, says ex-vaccine tsar

Kate Bingham warns cancellation of vaccine contract could affect UK’s capability to tackle pandemics

ViewIndia’s vaccine manufacturers fund £50m Oxford research hub

Poonawalla family gift to establish facility housing University of Oxford’s major vaccine development programmes

ViewNot-so-boring books of the year

From technopopulism, to Hawking, to words to live by, James Wilsdon picks his favourite titles

ViewRebuild the links between universities and business

Repairing relationships disrupted by the pandemic must be a priority for 2022, says Fariba Soetan

ViewWhat’s going on in the UK: 2-15 December

This week: diversity push, Horizon Europe, clinical trials and more

View2021: A lot to digest

Research Fortnight looks back over a deep-filled 12 months

ViewAnother year

Big policy questions for research remain for 2022

ViewThe third degree

Back page gossip from the 15 December issue of Research Fortnight

ViewExchange of ideas

How to counteract a hostile environment for visiting international students

ViewVictoria to host Australian mRNA manufacturing plant

Moderna facility aims to produce 100 million vaccine doses a year from 2024

ViewVallance calls for target to recruit more scientists in civil service

Chief scientific adviser wants to encourage scientists into policy as well as technical roles

ViewInternational students seek in-person teaching

Survey of education agents suggests mobile students will want face-to-face tuition

ViewIP waiver not solution to vaccine inequity, warn academies

Proposal could “distract attention” from more important policies to curb Covid-19 harms, European academies say

ViewGermany news roundup: 8-14 December

This week: a digital teaching trend, animal experiment extension, and support for researchers in danger

ViewMasters of Nothing

It’s a good time to resurface a book written by some well-known names

ViewStudent rent costs up by 60% in 10 years

NUS and Unipol data show growing proportion of student living loans spent on rent

ViewMichael Barber picked as University of Exeter chancellor

Former chair of Office for Students to lead the Russell Group university from January 2022

ViewEuropean Spallation Source set back two years at cost of €550m

Pandemic and “technical challenges” blamed for delay to construction of neutron source research facility

ViewNordic news roundup: 7-13 December

This week: a French knight, hand-sanitiser production in Stockholm, and digital teaching in Norway

ViewEntry barriers

Ministers are thought to be considering significant changes to student loan access