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Year of elections ‘key for university-government talks’

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UK and global research-intensive universities call for collaboration amid rising geopolitical tensions and new technologies

The head of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities has said that now is the “right time” to be calling for greater collaboration between universities and governments, as the organisation issued a joint call for action with similar groups abroad.

Tim Bradshaw told Research Professional News that it is “an election-heavy year, when more voters around the world than ever before will be heading to the polls”, including those in the UK, which head to the polls tomorrow.

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