235 pieces
Newest first, since April 2020 · page 4 of 12
· Wonk Corner
The challenge and promise of ten year R&D budgets
A decade is an eternity in politics and only a moment in research policy. Could ten year research budgets finally bring some stability to the research funding landscape?
· Comment
How to design an international student tuition fee levy
An international student levy might be a bad idea but some levies are much worse than others. James Coe takes us through how levies do and do not work.
· Comment
UKRI has too many people telling it what to do without the resources to do what it’s told
UKRI has too many priorities from too many places. James Coe asks if less could be more in building a thriving, inclusive research and innovation system
· Comment
Labour is learning the wrong lessons from Reform on immigration
Cutting student immigration won’t win votes and won’t improve the economy. James Coe urges the government to learn the right lessons from May’s local elections and he thinks universities can help.
· Wonk Corner
Just because the UK could have a different approach to research funding doesn’t mean it should
A new report by PWC commissioned by the Russell Group leaves a lingering sense that wholesale change to the research system might be a bad idea
· Comment
Balls to left, Willetts to the right, creates an industrial strategy with a gaping hole for universities
Ed Balls and David Willetts have drawn on their experiences to set out competing visions of an industrial strategy. James Coe splits the difference with a challenge to the sector to define its own path
· Comment
R&D spending brings the era of strategic ambiguity to an end
As education budgets tighten and defence budgets loosen James Coe argues it’s time for universities to abandon strategic ambiguity and make their positions clear
· Wonk Corner
Finding a sustainable way to fund postgraduate research isn’t easy
The postgraduate research funding system is creaking and a new report helps to explain why. James Coe takes a look.
· Comment
Research funding won’t redistribute itself
50 per cent of UKRI’s funding is now allocated outside of the Greater South East. James Coe asks if the age of regional research redistribution is upon us
· Wonk Corner
The National Audit Office takes a look at the Department for Business and Trade with lessons for universities
New department with some old problems for the sector
· Wonk Corner
UKRI gets mission ready
UKRI’s new roles hint at a mission oriented future.
· Wonk Corner
Disparities in Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council awards
RSS has taken a look at biases in EPSRC peer review processes
· Comment
How R&D creates new skills and can jump start the economy
If the country keeps producing the same graduates doing the same things in the same places it will never escape its low productivity trap. James Coe brings research funding into the skills debate
· Comment
We need to recognise the importance of maintenance too
James Coe comes to the defence of maintenance as undervalued but essential in the success of any university
· Analysis
Research flexibility doesn’t have to mean researcher precarity
James Coe and David Kernohan look for the balance between flexibility and predictability that can allow researchers, research, and the wider economy to thrive
With David Kernohan
· Comment
Lessons from Australia on how to do R&D consultations well
After treading through the darkness of R&D consultations James Coe finds a light over in Australia
· Comment
Can knowledge exchange fix a broken economy?
James Coe despairs at the UK’s economy through the medium of three new knowledge exchange evaluations
· SUs
What is organisational design and governance and why does it matter to SUs?
James Coe continues his series on students’ union strategy by looking at the role that organisational and governance design plays in delivering for students
· Policy Watch
UKRI increases PhD stipend by 8 per cent
James Coe takes us through UKRI’s new terms and conditions for PGR students
· Comment
How postdocs get on
A new paper coming out of the US has got James Coe thinking about postdocs and their contributions