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Global research policy, funding & HE news from @resfortnight @researcheurope @he_analyst @researchafrica. Funding opps: @researchprofes. Part of @clarivate.

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Budget: Chancellor restores two-year post-study visa for some graduates.

Extended rights for “high compliance” institutions as international fee levy impact assessment published (showing diminished revenues).

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Lump-sum funding works across Horizon Europe, survey finds

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John Healey at #Budget2026: Budget will be “backing the enterprise of British business to unleash innovation and growth in every post code.” Follow our blog for all the HE and R&D news live as it happens:

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It's back! Our traditional autumn budget live blog is up and running. Tune in for all the latest on R&D and higher education as the chancellor prepares to take to the podium. #budget2026

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Brian Cox: research system ‘can’t be used to engineer growth’.

Star physicist @ProfBrianCox warns Labour conference that UKRI’s economic remit is causing “serious problems”.

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Lead Erasmus+ MEP hopes Council will back €47.4bn budget

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Google denies shift from UK as Deepmind founder steps back.

AI lab’s new leader is based in California, with Demis Hassabis remaining in London as chair.

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Universities in Italy are set to receive a modest increase in public funding and a new mechanism to finance strategic initiatives, the government has announced

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Research cooperation between the EU and China has been limited to “basic research in targeted areas”, with negotiations on wider R&I cooperation “now on pause for the foreseeable future”

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UK should ‘seek to withdraw’ from Copernicus programme.

Science Works think tank calls Europe’s earth observation project “extremely poor value for money”.

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Review aims to make Welsh research ‘globally competitive’.

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Major scholarly publishers report ‘strong’ financial results

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Global Talent visa expands to research-intensive businesses.

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Funders are grappling with major shifts in research funding, assessment and publishing, according to the head of the Dutch Research Council (NWO), who told us about its work on a plan for how to respond to these factors and others

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MEPs have written to the European Commission to express concerns about what they suggested are design flaws in a consultation on funding public-public and public-private partnerships under the EU’s next research and innovation programme:

https://t.co/PJkNJbNUlD

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Research leaders have broadly welcomed moves by funders to allow use of AI to support evaluation processes, while cautioning about AI “influencing scientific assessment”

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Switzerland and UK positive about potential association to EU's next research and innovation programme

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Free-to-read opinion: Europe should read a potentially transformative new US science plan not as a blueprint to imitate, but as an invitation to reflect on what kind of research ecosystem it wants to build, says @LERU_SG

https://t.co/I4diDYyYAg

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Free-to-read: If funding is meant to support transformative ideas, some uncertainty is not a problem, writes Anete Vingre from Technopolis, based on an evaluation of the Austrian Science Fund 1000 Ideas programme

https://t.co/FNtxYTKhCk

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REF director defends summer survey to finalise policy.

Exercise could result in “refinements” to final guidance for the 2029 REF, scheduled for autumn.

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