Danish drugs giant invests in new UK university research centre
Novo Nordisk to invest £115 million in University of Oxford centre despite Brexit

Novo Nordisk to invest £115 million in University of Oxford centre despite Brexit

Dramatic student number shifts revealed by Ucas figures come as uncertainty looms on multiple fronts

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

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A round-up of academics awarded research council funding

Has scholarly pessimism helped fuel anti-expert rhetoric? Panglossian we are not, but when hope fails, there’s humour, says Shahidha Bari
On 26 January, the University of Warwick, like other English universities, put in its teaching excellence framework submission. It was with mixed feelings – mixed because, although we agree with the...
Steve Fuller argues in his feature “Et tu, academe?” (26 January) the case for “academic Caesars”, leaders who can make the radical decisions necessary to ensure that universities can survive...
One thing that the feature on confessing research mistakes (“To err is human; to admit it, trying” (26 January)) does not get into is journals’ review processes. A journal stakes its reputation on...
Re “Theresa May to seek new ‘credible alternative’ to universities” (23 January, www.timeshighereducation.com). The new technical courses look suitably redesigned and the reformed apprenticeships...

Top universities recognise that groundbreaking ideas don’t all develop and stay in one country, and neither do those who create and study them