The Office for Students (OfS) has confirmed changes to how it will distribute funding to universities and colleges for 2021-22. OfS funding supplements course fees which pay for the bulk of higher education course costs.

Swiss programme favours mainstream work, but unconventional applicants aren't deterred, say Charles Ayoubi and colleagues.

The investments are promising but won't fix the primate shortage, experts say.

A new study of grants awarded to early-career researchers by Europe's premier science agency is reviving an old controversy over the way governments decide which scientists get research money, and which do not.

Is a trend of auctioning non-fungible tokens based on scientific data a fascinating art fad, an environmental disaster or the future of monetized genomics?

Studies and surveys confirm that during the COVID-19 pandemic, women's workload at home has increased. Does that mean women researchers are also submitting fewer proposals to the SNSF? Analyses show that, with one exception, their share has remained stable.

2022 spending request would boost civilian but cut defense research

Institutional affiliations of panellists seem to skew European Research Council decisions - especially in the life sciences.

Nearly 900 universities, research organisations, and funding agencies want science publishers to be more transparent and abide by open access rules, after scientists complained their submissions are rejected if they apply a public copyright licence to accepted manuscripts.

The Swiss National Science Foundation hopes to eliminate bias when choosing between applications of similar quality.

The SNSF meticulously examines its funding activities. From now on, it will publish these analyses on its data portal. To kick things off, Open Access, ERC grants and women scientists during the pandemic are in focus.

Senate, House of Representatives panels examine proposals for massive spending hike and new directorate.

White House requests big funding increases for research agencies.

President and lawmakers push proposals to add technology directorate and boost budget.

President's infrastructure plan would boost spending at several federal research agencies.

Loss of grants, driven by deep cuts to foreign aid, threatens research and international collaborations.

Global study of the effects of COVID-19 on research funding, publishing, and library budgets - the truth we found in the gap between perception and reality

Today, we are adding a Public access section to Scholar profiles to help you track and manage public access mandates for your articles.

British universities have made an urgent plea to Boris Johnson to intervene and stop threats of steep research funding cuts from the Treasury, which would cost the sector £1bn and imperil thousands of jobs.

The UK is facing severe financial pressures as a result of COVID-19 and its impact on the economy. As a result, the UK government has decided to reduce the funds available for Official Development Assistance.

The National Institutes of Health will fund researchers to track people's recovery, and will host a biospecimen bank.

The Einstein Foundation funds science and research of top international calibre in Berlin.

Hackers seeking to extort Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research release confidential documents.