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ViewUEA vice-chancellor resigns as financial deficit grows

Need for “new leadership” cited, as institution faces an expected budget deficit of £45 million

ViewNursing headache

With university pay negotiations continuing, Playbook takes a look at the state of nursing education

ViewFriends for life

Maddalaine Ansell argues that the UK needs to look after its international alumni

ViewUK R&D sector pledges to continue support for Ukraine

On conflict’s anniversary, universities say partnerships with Ukrainian institutions “will last for years to come”

ViewStars in their eyes

Ivory Tower: We check in with the UK’s leading University Media Relations team.

ViewUK higher education pay talks to continue next week

But unions are unhappy with employers’ decision to implement an early pay rise

ViewKeir Starmer’s plan for economic growth ‘depends’ on science

Labour leader says his economic growth mission will rely on “seizing opportunities of tomorrow”

ViewGrowth in students bringing dependants to UK ‘inevitable’

Experts say rise was to be expected as universities diversified their international student intake

View‘Mission critical’ research facility for poultry diseases opened

New Pirbright Institute building to aid vaccine research against backdrop of H5N1 bird flu threat

ViewRising number of students taking on debt during cost of living crisis

Survey finds 91 per cent of students are worried about increasing prices

ViewUKRI Policy Fellowships, NIH overview, Velux Stiftung

A roundup of this week’s Funding Insight articles

ViewERC decides to go ahead with lump-sum funding pilot

Use of funding mode will be trialled with European Research Council Advanced Grants

ViewFocus on NIH: The big beast

How the NIH uses the US government’s billions to shape the world of biomedical research

ViewThe science bit

A think tank explores how scientists should be influencing government policy

ViewPeers voice concern over £1.6bn R&D funding returned to Treasury

Minister says “funding will remain available” for Horizon shortfalls under guarantee scheme

ViewMake universities’ help for Ukraine a model for other crises

Strong UK response raises broader questions about higher education’s humanitarian role, says Jamie Arrowsmith

ViewFrom the archive: Cross-cutting projects shine for Swiss funder

Velux Stiftung offers project grants in an eclectic range of subjects linked to daylight

ViewSmall firms plan to cut R&D over tax credit changes, survey finds

UK risks being left in “an innovation wasteland”, says business group

ViewExperts call for greater investment in UK-based AI research

“Auditing” approach for real-time regulation of AI could ensure ethical development, MPs hear

ViewUniversities may need to keep list of staff-student relationships

OfS outlines proposals that would require personal relationships between staff and students to be disclosed

ViewOpportunity profile: Political positioning

UKRI Policy Fellowships give researchers from multiple disciplines access to the corridors of power

ViewRegistry office

The OfS is consulting on proposals that aim to tackle sexual misconduct on campus

ViewStian Westlake to become ESRC executive chair

Economic and Social Research Council gets long-term boss after two years without permanent leader

ViewBlair and Hague say ‘radical change’ needed in UK R&D

Former party leaders urge major reforms including breaking Treasury “micromanagement” of science spending

ViewReduce student nurses’ clinical placement hours, say universities

MillionPlus calls for reassessment of student nurse placements as system is “creaking at the seams”

ViewOutrage as Treasury claws back £1.6bn in unspent R&D funds

Government urged to reinvest funding originally destined for EU programmes or alternatives back into R&D

ViewAshes to ashes

R&D is once again collateral damage in the row over the Northern Ireland protocol

ViewBeis ‘surrenders’ £1.6bn earmarked for EU research access

Campaign for Science and Engineering slams “reversal” of government’s position

ViewBAE expert picked as science adviser for business and trade

Senior defence company engineer Julia Sutcliffe takes chief adviser role at newly created department

ViewUK university groups back rejection of Springer Nature offer

Latest proposal from publisher “does not meet” needs of the sector, say university groups