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ResFortnight: Antisemitism on campus “continues to be a threat” Jewish students face at university, and institutions must improve their approaches to tackling it, a report has found. (£) @FiJMcIntyre @HE_Analyst
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Parliamentary taskforce sets out recommendations for universities to improve situation
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ResFortnight: RT @emmarubyfrancis: @ResFortnight have reported on the @NatureHumBehav piece @neuroblonde and I wrote ( https://t.co/ADRP2jZEij). “There is a need for increased investment in research in the UK and it’s time postgraduate researcher issue…
PhD students have called for more action from funders and universities to address the cost of living crisis. @emmarubyfrancis @neuroblonde @PandemicPGRs @UCUPostgrads
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ResFortnight: RT @ChrisJParr: Braverman announces visa crackdown. Not necessarily the biggest story about the home secretary today, but a biggie for #highered.
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Government to ban most international students from bringing family members to the UK
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ResFortnight: Suella Braverman has announced a crackdown on international students bringing family members to the UK, with all but those on postgraduate research programmes to be banned from bringing dependants from January 2024. @HE_Analyst @ChrisJParr
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Government to ban most international students from bringing family members to the UK
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ResFortnight: ICYMI @RobinBisson takes an in-depth look at life after Je-S, as UKRI replaces its creaking grant application system (complete with Beyonce and classic Nokia phone references). (£) https://t.co/elz1bkq3WY
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UKRI’s replacement for its creaking grant application system should be “like when iPhones came out”
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ResFortnight: PhD students have called for more action from funders and universities to address the cost of living crisis. @emmarubyfrancis @neuroblonde @PandemicPGRs @UCUPostgrads
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Stipends in UK remain “insufficient and unsustainable”, despite uplifts, say campaigners
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ResFortnight: National funder UK Research and Innovation has been criticised for “excluding” independent researchers from its newly published Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy. (£) @DrHelenKara @DrLBA_OX12 @LSEImpactBlog
https://t.co/XhCGViyUhu
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National funder’s equality, diversity and inclusion strategy makes no mention of the group, complain researchers
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ResFortnight: The government has announced a policy framework for global health, including ambitions to maintain UK research leadership and increase international capacity for tackling health threats. (£) @RobinBisson
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£39 million in R&D funding for antimicrobial resistance announced, alongside promise of further research investment
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ResFortnight: The UK must act to reverse the decline of industry clinical trials, a group representing the pharmaceutical sector has warned. (£)
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Pharmaceutical industry body sets out steps to boost clinical trials, including regulation reform
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ResFortnight: The Welsh government has announced £10 million to build R&D capacity in Wales—as universities increase their warnings that researchers face falling off a funding “cliff edge” following the UK’s departure from the European Union. (£)
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Institutions step up pressure on politicians while latest cash targets life sciences, engineering and computing
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ResFortnight: International students could miss out on post-study work visas because of the University and College Union marking boycott, university and union leaders at the University of Cambridge have said. (£) @FiJMcIntyre @ucu @HE_Analyst
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Cambridge leader and local UCU boss call for negotiations to continue in national pay row
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ResFortnight: RT @AnEmergentI: Great write by @sophie_inge up of the part of my talk at UCL that was about ARIA . Key quote is I 'said Aria “could not be in better hands”, following the appointments of its founding chief executive Ilan Gur and chair Mat…
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ResFortnight: The Advanced Research and Invention Agency’s “small budget” and micromanagement from government could pose future challenges for the nascent £800 million funder, a former science adviser to Number 10 has warned. (£) @AnEmergentI @ARIA_resea…
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James Phillips says funding agency must be protected from Treasury ‘meddling’
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ResFortnight: RT @acmedsci: Our recent FORUM workshop report on greener biomedical research was covered in @ResFortnight: https://t.co/wvFohc0FOn The report calls for a 'top-down' approach to drive environmental sustainability. 🌱🔬Read the full #Gr…
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Funders consider building sustainability into grant requirements as calls grow for standardised carbon reporting
Call for leadership to help UK research sector decarbonise: Funders consider building sustainability into grant requirements as calls grow for standardised carbon reporting. (£) @royalsociety
https://t.co/t4tVE7ssBQ
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ResFortnight: University spinout clusters growing outside golden triangle: Manchester and Bristol have highest growth by proportion of spinout population, data reveal. (£) https://t.co/HLVOMo9YHk
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Manchester and Bristol have highest growth by proportion of spinout population, data reveal
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ResFortnight: UK puts R&D at core of new semiconductor plan: Semiconductor strategy promises £1 billion for sector amid global chip shortage. (£) https://t.co/2EvlDAVpcH
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Semiconductor strategy promises £1 billion for sector amid global chip shortage
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ResFortnight: UK officials admit Horizon ‘limbo’ is damaging: Civil servants unwilling to give a timeframe for ongoing talks on joining EU R&D programme. (£) https://t.co/VhIpbDZRvg
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Civil servants unwilling to give a timeframe for ongoing talks on joining EU R&D programme
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ResFortnight: R&D sector sets out expectations for a Labour government: Labour has “significant opportunity” to think afresh on building stronger connections between research and policymaking. (£) https://t.co/GwNAmpfNvr
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Labour has “significant opportunity” to think afresh on building stronger connections between research and policymaking
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ResFortnight: Call for leadership to help UK research sector decarbonise: Funders consider building sustainability into grant requirements as calls grow for standardised carbon reporting. (£) @royalsociety
https://t.co/K2wblQoE2G
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Funders consider building sustainability into grant requirements as calls grow for standardised carbon reporting
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ResFortnight: Funders are becoming ever more exacting when they assess patient and public involvement on bids. PPI adviser @DrAmandaBates gives an overview on how to live up to their expectations – and improve your project in the process. (£) https://t.co/tdWwwAartD
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Ten things to consider to make sure you’re doing PPI right
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