Research Excellence Summit
Times Higher Education editor John Gill asks Toby Walsh about the strengths that universities can bring to artificial intelligence research
Sir Fraser Stoddart says the most rewarding element of his work has been supervising research students, who supported him personally after his wife¡¯s death
Business and academia accuse each other of ¡®more aggressive¡¯ assertion of intellectual property rights
Researchers must ¡®put on the gloves¡¯ and bring the fight to their critics, says Arizona State professor
The government¡¯s new ¡®national interest¡¯ test for research proposals is another damaging symptom of short-termism, says Margaret Sheil
Universities must do a better job of showing how their research results in real-life benefits for society, Charles Clarke has argued
Australia¡¯s chief scientist says universities can¡¯t be expected to respond to the fast-paced changes in labour market demands
Conference hears that nationalist politics could hamper efforts to tackle pandemics
Research benefits often unforeseeable but must be communicated
Research for the public good being subverted by geopolitical ¡®zero-sum competition¡¯, says former LSE professor
Counting China¡¯s first green billionaire among your mentees doesn¡¯t hurt in funding applications, says UNSW professor
Don¡¯t fixate on funding cuts and market challenges, UK-born star scientist Michelle Simmons tells Australian peers
Andrei Volkov says rankings are only part of the initiative, alongside improved culture and diversity
Emergence of lingua franca in science should not lead to other languages being neglected in teaching, conference hears
Deputy chair of Russia¡¯s academic excellence programme encourages institutions to adopt innovative approaches to learning
University leaders from Russia and India and an executive from Microsoft discuss how to attract and retain top-tier academics
Cultural and linguistic cohesion required if region is to fulfil its higher education potential, experts say
Many universities now looking to China, not to Europe, to form academic partnerships, says Cambridge professor
National improvement programmes have clear losers as well as winners, THE summit hears
Event will feature launch of four Times Higher Education subject rankings
The event will launch a new ranking of the best universities in the Eurasia region
Historian says Trump could attract educated young people if he promised to tackle their debts, while rector tells summit Czech universities remain ¡®strongholds of critical discourse¡¯
Universities in the former East Germany are now on a par with those of western Europe while others in the former Soviet bloc still lag. David Matthews visits Poland to explore why
Speakers at THE summit worry that structural funds have become ¡®part of the problem¡¯ for new member states
The THE team discusses the challenges and opportunities facing central European universities
Czech presidential candidate Ji?¨ª Draho? is among prestigious line-up of speakers for event on research excellence
The first Times Higher Education ranking measuring universities in the 13 nations that have joined the EU post-2000 will launch at the event
