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.

A new study proposes a technique to print images on a special surface such that they can only be seen by authorized recipients.

Community effort to systematically count and categorize trash in the Pinole watershed led to the prioritization of locations and trash types that informed recommendations for local government policy.

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.

A recent article in the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research (IJHPR), analyzes the factors behind a recent surge in high quality publications by Israeli researchers, which have also informed global efforts to control the COVID-19 pandemic. This blog highlights two of those factors which may be particularly relevant for researchers, research institutions, and research authorities in other countries.

The UK Government’s research evaluation system encourages a higher quantity and lower quality of work from academics, according to a recent paper.

UNESCO and its partners are organizing an official side event on 23 March during the United Nations’ 2023 Water Conference on indigenous knowledge of water governance and management.

An international panel of scientists has identified 100 of the most important questions facing plant science.

Scientists from Africa, South America, and South Asia are more rarely consulted than their peers in the Global North. A new database aims to change that.

From a CUP Announcement: The rules are set out in the first AI ethics policy from Cambridge University Press and apply to research papers, books and other scholarly works. They include a ban on AI being treated as an 'author' of academic papers and books we publish. 

Today the science academies of the G-7 countries issued three joint statements to their respective governments to inform discussions during the G-7 summit to be held in Hiroshima, Japan, in May, as well as ongoing policymaking.

In the first nationally representative survey of U.S. adults on reasons for trust in federal, state, and local public health agencies' information during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers found that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was highly trusted for information by more than one-third of U.S. adults, whereas state and local health departments were highly trusted by about one-quarter.