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Exclusive: Office for Students spent almost £450,000 on Sussex court case.
Experts say “extraordinary sum” for legal costs in free speech case will “raise eyebrows”.
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Business links ‘could see university research generate a return’.
Losses on research could be stemmed by focusing on business case, science investment summit hears.
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🎉We are in celebratory mood! Today's Research Fortnight is the 700th edition to be published since we began back in October 1994🎉
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UK ministers announce ‘new £750m national AI supercomputer’
Plan also heralds doubling of AI Research Resource power and more PhDs in “critical fields”.
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Push to build evidence for UK research policy launches
Current decision-making not “sufficiently evidence-based”, say founders of new “policy and research studio” Science Works.
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Widespread concern over reforms to research infrastructure funding
University groups fear shift towards more competitive funding could worsen repair backlog sitting at £5.6bn.
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UCU imposes ‘global academic boycott’ on Sheffield in pay row
Union objects to withholding of pay after strike action, but university says few staff affected
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AI ‘generating fake research data on industrial scale’, warns sleuth.
Leading integrity expert Elisabeth Bik says oversight bodies need “stronger teeth” to counter AI-enabled fraud.
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REF 2029 culture weightings risk ‘perpetuating inequalities’.
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UKRI lacks ‘heft and punch’, Peter Mandelson told Patrick Vallance.
Disgraced former US ambassador pushed for more ministerial direction at national funder, new documents show.
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Breaking: Government set to cut strategic priorities grant.
The government is on the cusp of cutting public funding for higher education teaching, the head of Universities UK has told MPs, placing institutions under even more financial pressure.
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Peer-reviewed papers are ‘old hat science’, says millionaire investor.
Candy Crush entrepreneur Mel Morris says universities “must embrace AI” to transform into economic powerhouses.
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Ivory Tower: Acid test.
It’s exam season, so please turn over your paper and begin. Today it is the final exam for the BA in Higher Education and Research Policy.
(It’s a fine art, not an exact science)
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Funders ‘should not rush’ radical changes amid AI grant application surge.
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Predatory recruitment by high-tariff providers ‘will cause UK university failures’.
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AI ‘could make a PhD researcher as productive as a lab’, says Nobelist Demis Hassabis.
Artificial intelligence systems will allow a single PhD student's output to match that of a whole laboratory, says chemistry laureate.
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In depth: Could basic research income help fix a funding system in crisis?
“Radical” solution gains attention as applications surge engulfs funders but lacks any serious experimentation.
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Funders scramble to limit demand as research grant applications rocket.
Research council moves to cap institutions come alongside high-level concern about “pushing pressure down system”.
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China overtakes UK on number of British engineering papers funded.
Acknowledgements of funders in China topped those of British counterparts in 2025, our analysis reveals.
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Patchy funding records ‘holding back research’.
Barcelona Declaration group outlines cross-sector plan to improve funding metadata.
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