University of Kent

The University of Kent is one of the UK’s top 20 institutions producing world-class research, rated internationally excellent, and leading the way in many fields of study.

Established in 1965, Kent – the UK’s European university – now has almost 20,000 students across campuses in Canterbury and Medway, and study centres in Tonbridge, Brussels, Paris, Athens and Rome.

It is a leading research-intensive UK university creating a global student and staff community that advances knowledge and stimulates intellectual creativity, and performs at the highest levels.

Kent believes in the unity of research and teaching, in the freedom and responsibility that staff have to question and test received wisdom, in the transforming power of higher education, in acting with integrity, and the value of an inclusive and diverse university community.

It is committed to growing, shaping and supporting the regions in which it operates so that it may have a positive social, cultural and economic impact.

Along with the universities of East Anglia and Essex, Kent is a member of the Eastern Arc Research Consortium (www.kent.ac.uk/about/partnerships/eastern-arc.html).

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Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, Ukraine s president Volodymyr Zelensky and French president, Emmanuel Macron meeting with US special enoy Steve Witkoff at at the Elysee Palace in Paris, January 6 2026. Jeanne Accorsini/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

If Europe wants to ‘go it alone’ on security, countries need to learn to sing from the same songsheet

Splits are appearing in Europe’s approach to Russia’s aggression just when it needs to present a united front.
A bust of Margaret Thatcher in Stanley, the main town of the Falkland Islands, oversees a memorial to British soldiers who fought in the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over sovereignty of the territory. AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan

Territorial integrity and self‑determination still dominate the Falklands discussion – but oil may change that

Sovereignty isn’t up for debate, but there might there be other reasons to find a more collaborative approach in the South Atlantic.
European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign affairs chief, are at loggerheads over the Iran war. Philipp von Ditfurth/dpa

Iran and Ukraine are changing the EU and testing its unity

The two wars are forcing the EU to take a more assertive role in defence and security affairs, leading to arguments between senior officials.
Ketika peneliti dan penelaah bekerja keras mengidentifikasi kesalahan, penerbit komersial justru meraup keuntungan dari volume publikasi dan prestise—membiarkan karya ilmiah bermasalah terus beredar, menyesatkan kebijakan, dan memengaruhi pengambilan keputusan lama setelah kekeliruannya diketahui. Ilustrator: Abiyasa Abiguna

Saat kesalahan karya ilmiah dibiarkan: Penerbit tetap untung, publik yang rugi

Sistem penerbitan akademik seringkali membiarkan kesalahan ilmiah tetap ada karena lebih mengutamakan keuntungan dan prestise daripada koreksi yang cepat.
Broken incentives, broken science. While researchers and reviewers labour to catch errors, commercial publishers profit from volume and prestige — leaving flawed papers to persist, mislead policy, and shape decisions long after problems are known. Illustrator: Abiyasa Abiguna

When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes

Academic publishing system often allows scientific errors to persist because it prioritises profit and prestige over timely correction.
An active service member used this election war ballot cover to mail in a vote in the 1944 presidential election. National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Americans have had their mail‑in ballots counted after Election Day for generations − a Supreme Court ruling could end the practice

29 states allow mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted days after an election. A case before the Supreme Court could take that decision away from the states.
Ursula von der Leyen is struggling to hold together an EU that is increasingly divided over Ukraine. Nicolas Landemard/Le Pictorium/Alamy Live News

EU agrees €90 billion loan to Ukraine, but squabbles over frozen Russian assets expose the bloc’s deep divisions

To placate pro-Moscow governments in Hungary, Slovakia and Czechia, the EU had to include an ‘opt-out’ clause for its support for Ukraine.
Iniciativa na Indonésia que engaja e recompensa integrantes das comunidades locais por registros da vida selvagem está remodelando os esforços de conservação e revolucionando relação da população com a floresta.

Vistos, mas não esquecidos: como a ciência cidadã ajuda a documentar a biodiversidade em aldeias remotas de Bornéu

Em aldeias remotas de Bornéu, habitantes locais ganham dinheiro registrando a vida selvagem, em iniciativa que está remodelando a conservação e redefinindo a forma como as comunidades valorizam suas florestas.

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