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Students ‘dissatisfied’ with branch campuses in Qatar
Scholar says overseas outposts cannot compete with universities abroad without delivering a ‘superior’ service
Petition: We require any BRexit deal preserves UK access to EU collaborative R&D programs
UK access to EU R&D programmes stimulates £billions of investment and gives the UK access to skills and technologies that it does not have. Ending our access to these programmes will weaken our economy which depends on exploitation of innovative science and technology.
Commission to invest €8.5 billion in research and innovation in 2017
Today, the European Commission announced an investment of €8.5 billion to be released during 2017 into research and innovation, following an update to the Work Programme of Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation funding programme.
Science advice for Europe
On 23 July, around 4500 scientists and friends of science will assemble in Manchester, UK, for the opening of the EuroScience Open Forum, Europe's largest interdisciplinary research conference.
Science under siege: how Venezuela’s economic crisis is affecting researchers
Chemist Claudio Bifano tells Nature about daily life in a country gripped by hunger, scarcity and violence.
Turkish academics targeted as government reacts to failed coup
Recall of those studying abroad is latest step after forced resignations and firings.
Turkey purges universities after failed coup
Political turmoil spreads to education sector.
Royal Society science medal and awards winners
Scientific awards, medals and prizes awarded by the Royal Society in 2016.
NWO makes 3 million available for Replication Studies pilot
The pilot focuses on replicating studies that have a large impact on science, government policy or the public debate.
Race, not gender, is key factor in NIH awards
Race not gender appears to be the most significant factor influencing the award of a National Institutes of Health Research Project Grant, according to a new study led by a University of Kansas economist.
The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists
These are dark times for science so we asked hundreds of researchers how to fix it.
After protest, Canada’s health science funder reverses course on peer review changes
Researchers had rebelled against shift to online-only reviews.
Thomson Reuters to sell IP & science unit for $3.55 billion
Thomson Reuters agreed to sell its intellectual property and science business to private equity firms Onex Corp and Baring Private Equity Asia for $3.55 billion in cash.
Canadian researchers who commit scientific fraud are protected by privacy laws
Canadian researchers who commit scientific fraud are protected by privacy laws
The publicly funded agency responsible for policing scientific fraud is keeping secret the details surrounding these researchers. Their names, where they worked, and what they did wrong is protected under privacy laws.
ASM Journals Eliminate Impact Factor Information from Journal Websites
The goal being to avoid contributing further to the inappropriate focus on journal IFs.
Canada's health funder agrees to meet with researchers outraged by peer-review changes
Beat it, impact factor! Publishing elite turns against controversial metric
Senior staff at Nature, Science and other journals want to end inappropriate use of the measure.
NIH awards $55 million to build million-person precision medicine study
Launch expected later this year.
U.K. research charity will self-publish results from its grantees
Wellcome Trust looks to save money and time communicating the research it funds.