Attracting international students: we're good but must work harder
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The UK higher education sector is at a confidence crossroads. Bravery and imagination are needed.
The UK higher education sector is at a confidence crossroads. Bravery and imagination are needed.
The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy (the Integrated Review) is due to be published soon.
Describing the UK as "a world leader in developing science," US pharma company Merck says it plans to build a £1bn UK hub called the London Discovery Research Centre in London's King's Cross.
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A ten-year-old spin-out company from Oxford University aims to start manufacturing the world’s most efficient solar panels by the end of 2020, according to this article in The Guardian.
The UK’s response to the coronavirus is at odds with much of the world, including its near European neighbours.
It's worth reading Tony Blair's article on the website of his Institute for Global Change. There can't be many clearer expositions of the need for Remainers to work out how to make the best of Brexit. He urges a "determined optimism."
What do fears about chlorinated chicken say about food safety in the UK?
The British scientific community has been pretty gloomy of late, racked with worries about Brexit. But perhaps the new Global Talent visa will provide some scope for optimism.
That’s because English boffins have made themselves an atom nursery
Britain has a thriving ‘legal’ cannabis industry, writes Robert Jackman in The Spectator, which generates hundreds of millions of pounds in revenue each year. He cites a recent UN report, saying that Britain is currently the biggest producer and exporter of legal cannabis in the world.
London has been pipped at the post by New York in the rankings of global financial centres, amid full-scale Brexit uncertainty.
In a world first, an Anglo-American initiative has managed to predict cholera outbreaks in war-torn Yemen with 92% accuracy, using weather data and technology.