Mehr Schulen, mehr Abiturienten, mehr Lehrer und mehr Akademiker. Die Bildungsexpansion ist beispiellos. Fachleute streiten, wie lang sie weitergeht. Und wozu.

Higher education needs to break down the barriers that block pathways to cross-subject study.

Universities are drowning in digital information. It's time senior leaders made openness – and its consequences – their concern.

Scientists are not as secular as people think.

Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don't matter in today's great debates.

Maybe the researchers deeply believed that their findings were true. But that is the problem. The more passionate scientists are about their work, the more susceptible they are to bias.

An interview with Professor Sydney Brenner, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002.

The number of female students considering university courses in STEM subjects has seen a bigger increase over the last seven years than for male students, according to new research.

„Eine gute Forschungsstätte räumt Hindernisse aus dem Weg," meint Jürgen Knoblich, stellvertretender Direktor des Instituts für Molekulare Biotechnologie (IMBA) des ÖAW.

The EU's academic output is 20% higher than the US. This shouldn't really be a surprise given the EU's combined population of over 500m versus America's 300m. In fact, Europe produces a third of the world's research outputs and, like China, investment is being ramped up while UK and US investments are treading water.

Times Higher Education rankings editor Phil Baty uncovers the secrets behind the California Institute of Technology's extraordinary global success

Antonio Loprieno, Rektor der Uni Basel, im Interview

Die Bedeutung von Drittmitteln in der universitären Forschung hat dramatisch zugenommen und wächst immer noch weiter.

Although the representation of women and racial or ethnic minorities within the scientific community has increased in recent decades, the overall pace of diversification remains relatively slow.

Die Einführung von Tenure Track-Modellen für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs ist in Deutschland neuerdings in aller Munde.

Why don't proposals given better scores by the NIH lead to more important research outcomes?

Long-term study will monitor healthy people in detail — and encourage them to respond to the results

Le sociologue et historien des sciences Yves Gingras vient de publier "Les dérives de l'évaluation de la recherche. Du bon usage de la bibliométrie", chez Raison d'agir.

A special issue of the EuroScientist focusing on the evolving solution for research evaluation

Knowledge generated with public funds should be accessible to everyone, says Dr Al Shorbaji, Director of Knowledge, Ethics and Research at WHO.

Research careers are built on publishing in high-profile journals, so can postdocs be expected to take a stand against them?

Der amerikanische Literaturagent John Brockman stellt der Cyber-Elite jedes Jahr seine Edge-Frage. Lesen Sie an dieser Stelle eine Auswahl der jüngsten aufregenden und überraschenden Antworten.

Scientific publishing is under the spotlight at the moment. Is it time for change?

Vor bestehendem Wissen keinen Respekt zu haben, ist Merkmal hochwertiger Forschung. Die Realität zeigt, dass die Welt von diesem Idealzustand erschreckend weit entfernt ist.

Once upon a time, it was common for scientists to receive letters from researchers working in other institutions, asking for reprints of papers they had published ...

A bibliometric analysis in Nature purports to confirm that women scientists are discriminated against. But the full picture might be much more interesting.

What scientist hasn’t dreamed of spending less time getting funding and more time doing research?

Over the past year, Jonathan Eisen's reading habits have changed dramatically. For most of the past 2 decades, he has kept up with scientific literature primarily by combing PubMed. But these days Eisen, an evolutionary biologist, discovers research relevant to his own work without even looking for it.

There are indeed concerns about the current science publishing model, but until major changes in grant funding are incorporated, researchers will continue to lust after publications in high-tier journals.

As public pressure builds for drug companies to make more results available from clinical trials, the industry should not forget that it relies on collective goodwill to test new therapies.