The donation, to fund a new global network of universities, is in addition to $750M Soros announced in November to assist Budapest-based Central European University in its enforced move to Vienna

Sandrine Dixson-Declève to chair a 16-strong panel to give advice on research and innovation policy to underpin EU sustainable development

New report highlights priorities ahead of planned revamp of Europe’s single market for research and innovation

A draft plan, for adoption in Brussels on 4 March, highlights the importance of research and innovation in making EU industry more competitive

Fast track ‘Global Talent’ visa will have no limit on numbers and applicants will not need to have a job before arriving in the country

President of Capital Medical University in Beijing, Rao Yi, says US president Donald Trump is ‘disrupting exchanges that would benefit humankind’

Ending the west to east disparity in pay for scientists working on Marie Curie projects in Horizon Europe would be one way to limit brain drain from poorer EU countries, Croatian science minister tells MEPs

Leading climate economist warns that two big-money Chinese investment programmes could tip planet into catastrophic global warming

Universities should not be viewed as graduate factories. They need to get back to their core ethos, and educate students to think. Learning by doing is the way forward