The many obstacles in the way of campus start-ups range from mundane rivalry over laboratory space, to a lack of a top-level commitment to promoting technology transfer and entrepreneurialism. This year's ACES winners met with EIT to discuss experiences and share insight.

The 7th annual roll call of the world’s best universities still ranks Europe’s jewels low, with the US taking more than 50 of the top 100 spots.

The European University Association (EUA) is to lead a project to develop a scorecard aimed at benchmarking university autonomy across Europe.

The UK government has called on universities to make a greater contribution to the economy, widen access, and strengthen their research capacity.

The French government has just announced the six first campuses to benefit from a €5 billion investment from the sale of shares in the energy company EDF. And Paris is not included.

German science is on a high, as new elite universities are named a week after bagging the physics and chemistry Nobels.

If the UK government truly believes universities are central not only to the economy, but the fabric of society, it must set them free, says Professor Rick Trainor, President of Universities UK.

Queen’s University Belfast has launched a scheme to encourage more students to study scientific and technical subjects.

Despite their new legal status, French universities are still characterised by overcrowded classrooms, underpaid professors and bureaucracy. So, plus ça change?

The United Arab Emirates are leading a Gulf spending spree to invest their oil billions in science and technology – and Western universities are counting the rewards.