Jack Grove

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen steps up efforts to attract American academics while taking aim at Trump’s ‘miscalculation’ of failing to support research

Champions of the free and unpaywalled model overlook the vast amount of unpaid academic labour that underpins such titles, says departing editor

Institutions advising on Armenia’s merger plans should consider how ‘academic city’ will make student protest impossible, warns Harvard professor

After the furore of Oxford’s election, no obvious frontrunner has emerged to take the high-profile role at Cambridge. Some say the institution needs a politically engaged figurehead, others want someone who can sort out internal fractures

Concerns that UK’s £2 billion annual quality-related funding stream could be cut allayed by Research England’s budget increase

Total of £8.8 billion given to UK’s main research funder a real-terms cut but likely to be viewed favourably amid Whitehall spending reductions

University and College Union says plans to slash jobs and merge departments go ‘too deep, too fast’

UK research funders and philanthropists must step up efforts to incentivise disaffected academics to cross Atlantic, says Venki Ramakrishnan

Eminent scientists express dismay after UK science academy reportedly confirms Tesla mogul will not by investigated

Digital fashion founder will head up £1.1 billion innovation funding agency after a year-long search for new executive chair

Bureaucracy fears as new Research England rules push for ‘robust data’ on where quality-related funding is spent