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If AI is making access to knowledge less scarce, what role to do universities have in delivering it?
Academia is dysfunctional, says the White House, and needs radical solutions. But is the research reform agenda being used to defund universities, or moving too fast?
Universities are creating AI schools alongside disciplines such as logic, economics and communication without addressing their shared foundations. Mouhamdy M. Dahoud argues that this reflects an ontological gap, with current research funding and assessment taxonomies overlooking an entire category of science.
The authors investigate how funding structures influence university governance and research behaviour. The paper contributes to broader discussions about autonomy, incentives, and the organisation of research systems.
A dedicated call from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology will help shift the focus of EU education networks
Gdańsk declaration sets out infrastructure, brain drain and grant office measures. But Ukraine is far short of R&D spending targets
With universities relying on disclosure models and deficit framing to address awarding gaps, racism and ableism aren't distortions of the system - they're built into it.
Rectors’ conferences across Europe unite behind call for ambitious Horizon Europe budget and long-term funding for university alliances
Attacks have destroyed or damaged a wide range of academic and commercial research centers.
Jim Dickinson presents findings from new research on students' use of AI – and argues the sector is punishing precisely the disposition it should be cultivating.
Reductions in federal reimbursement rates for institutional research facilities and administration costs could bankrupt America’s research universities.
University-based science parks could become highly attractive sites for deeper engagement with industry, venture capitalists, and start-ups, and help procure government funding too, as proven in the UK, Singapore, and China.
In another legal win for U.S. universities, a panel of appellate judges yesterday upheld a lower court ruling blocking the National Institutes of Health from sharply reducing the funding it gives institutions.
European higher education sector organisations have issued a joint statement calling on member states, the European Parliament and the European Commission to ensure an allocation of at least €60 billion (US$70 billion) for Erasmus+ from 2028 to 2034.
The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” developed by the Trump administration and sent to nine universities on 1 October, proposes that the institutions agree to a series of criteria in exchange for preferential treatment in funding decisions. As of 20 October, various schools have responded to Trump’s offer.
Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education Rankings. According to its president, most of these rankings are "black boxes" whose methods raise ethical questions.
Universities remain the backbone of social and technological progress. However, not everybody in Europe understands the power and strength of basic science and its importance for the future progress of the continent.
In June 2024, a study called for an end to use of ranking to validate research. The researchers gave their reasons. Others have followed even while the ranking industry seems to be coming off more and more popular with students, parents and recruiters.
Second-career academics and pracademics challenge traditional notions of academic leadership - and that's exactly what universities need.
Changes to the social media platform make further use “untenable”
UNESCO has called for the creation of university chairs for the study of the history of enslavement and the transatlantic slave trade.
Universities might be able to transform without help, but public investment would bring pace and focus on national priorities. Alistair Jarvis sets out how a transformation fund could work.
Policymakers’ view of R&I needs to look beyond narrow economic objectives, says Thomas Jørgensen
