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After years of excruciating delays, elated scientists welcome the new agreement.
Delay joining the Horizon Europe programme making it more difficult to attract and retain the brightest scientists.
Negotiations stalling over London's request to quit atomic research organisation and for financial rebate.
Some students at UK universities may not receive their grades this summer because of a marking boycott by staff, affecting exams and assessments. The boycott is part of action being taken by members of the University and College Union (UCU) at 145 UK institutions, in a dispute over pay and working conditions.
Scientists including the physicist Brian Cox have reacted with a mixture of caution, anger and relief that the UK appears set to rejoin the EU’s flagship £85bn Horizon science research programme after a protracted Brexit row.
On 2 May 2023, State Secretary Martina Hirayama and British Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation, George Freeman, opened the first meeting of the Joint Swiss-British Committee for Science and Innovation. This meeting between the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) and the British Department for Science, Innovation and Technology was mainly centred on bilateral cooperation in research and innovation.
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) are continuing a marking and assessment boycott over pay and working conditions. The BBC spoke to students and staff at the University of Cambridge about how the situation is being handled there.
Open Access Government investigates some of the UK's Minister of State in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology's remit, including Horizon Europe and life sciences
Experts insist successes of Brussels' 95bn programme could never be replicated by a UK-only substitute.
In the last few months, there has been a series of strikes by teachers in further education colleges across England over pay and conditions, and more strikes look set to impact the post-16 education sector this year. This report examines how pay and retention levels among college teachers in England have changed over time and compared with school teachers.
As the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer releases the Spring Budget, the life science industry appears to be at the heart of the country's global image in years to come.
Tomorrow's vote on the Windsor framework in the UK parliament marks a crucial step on the country's potential path to associating to Horizon Europe, the EU's €95.5 billion research and innovation programme.
A raft of think tanks have hired dedicated science and technology experts in the last year.
A new assessment of Britain's research capability concludes it has "serious and longstanding problems".
UK scientists had been shut out of the multibillion-euro scheme amid drawn-out Brexit negotiations.
Windsor Framework could end impasse over Horizon Europe funding program, but hurdles remain.
UK researchers received little funding from EU programme because of Brexit trade deal negotiations.
Negotiations on Horizon Europe dragged on - and UK-based researchers came up short.
The Treasury has taken back £1.6bn that it had allocated to UK involvement in a EU science research programme.
Now is not the time to undermine positive moves over the future of EU-UK science collaboration.
Former universities minister Michelle Donelan is appointed head of newly-created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in mini-reshuffle.
