Open borders

What will it take to get the coalition to think again on highly skilled immigration?

Restrictions on visiting researchers are unworkable

Runxuan Zhang is a talented young computational biologist who joined The James Hutton Institute on 1 April last year. That’s the day I started work as its first chief executive and 700 staff, students and visiting workers transferred to it from north-east Scotland’s Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, in Aberdeen, and Scottish Crop Research Institute, in Dundee...

The science and engineering charity that struggles to give cash away

The Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851 is a charity with a clear and unusual wish for the new year—to distribute more money... Read more

Thinking of leaving the lab bench for the front bench?

The Campaign for Science and Engineering has teamed up with the British Library to host an event for scientists and engineers to learn how to engage with politics... Read more

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