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In the last few months, there has been a series of strikes by teachers in further education colleges across England over pay and conditions, and more strikes look set to impact the post-16 education sector this year. This report examines how pay and retention levels among college teachers in England have changed over time and compared with school teachers.
As the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer releases the Spring Budget, the life science industry appears to be at the heart of the country's global image in years to come.
Tomorrow's vote on the Windsor framework in the UK parliament marks a crucial step on the country's potential path to associating to Horizon Europe, the EU's €95.5 billion research and innovation programme.
A raft of think tanks have hired dedicated science and technology experts in the last year.
A new assessment of Britain's research capability concludes it has "serious and longstanding problems".
UK scientists had been shut out of the multibillion-euro scheme amid drawn-out Brexit negotiations.
Windsor Framework could end impasse over Horizon Europe funding program, but hurdles remain.
UK researchers received little funding from EU programme because of Brexit trade deal negotiations.
Negotiations on Horizon Europe dragged on - and UK-based researchers came up short.
The Treasury has taken back £1.6bn that it had allocated to UK involvement in a EU science research programme.
Now is not the time to undermine positive moves over the future of EU-UK science collaboration.
Former universities minister Michelle Donelan is appointed head of newly-created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in mini-reshuffle.
Of 174 UK-based ERC grant winners 23, or around one in eight, have decided to relocate, while only four of 66 researchers based in Switzerland did so.
Minister Freeman announces new global research fund to deepen collaboration between the UK and international R&D powers like Japan.
Data show that the representation of scientists from marginalized ethnicities dwindles at each stage of UK academia.
Researchers relieved by decision to reaffirm previous spending commitments.
The EU moved to exclude the UK from Horizon Europe calls on sensitive quantum projects in October due to doubts over the country's willingness to provide EU researchers with reciprocal access to UK programmes and to comply with intellectual property rules. The move reverses the EU's previous decision to accept UK participation in more mature quantum projects with high 'technology readiness levels'.
Political tensions mean both nations have been shut out of the EU's prestigious Horizon programme.
George Freeman has been reappointed as UK science minister four months after he resigned from the post when former prime minister Boris Johnson lost power. Jan Palmowski, secretary general at The Guild of European Research Intensive universities welcomed the news, telling Science|Business, Freeman knows the science sector and "gets the importance of Europe."
It is often taken as a given that higher education shapes the politics of students. However, drawing on evidence from the British Election Study, Tom Fryer finds students' political attitudes do not change radically during their studies.
The UK's Chief Scientific Advisor says every government department needs to take science into consideration and invest more in R&D.
Nusrat Ghani faces pressing issues such as the future of funding for Britain's researchers.
New Prime Minister Liz Truss has yet to appoint someone to oversee research, and her economic policy has sparked a currency crisis.
The number of cabinet committees has been slimmed down from 20 to just six, with the National Science and Technology Council among those abolished.
Scheme gets under way as data suggests Environment Agency's own monitoring leaves rivers unprotected
