Elizabeth Gibney worked for ߣߣÊÓƵ from 2012-13. She wrote about postgraduates, early career researchers, knowledge transfer, computing and medical research. Her brief is now covered by research reporter Holly Else.
Fifteen per cent of the university spin-offs incorporated in 2000, 2001 and 2002 have so far made a ¡°successful exit¡± by way of trade sales or flotations on the stock exchange, data show
The capital budget for science will be increased to ?1.1 billion in 2015-16 and maintained in real terms until the end of the decade, the chancellor George Osborne has announced.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has reached a settlement with the Treasury in negotiations over the 2015-16 spending review, reports suggest
The UK government must be among those reassuring the public that genetically modified crops are ¡°a safe, proven and beneficial innovation¡±, environment secretary Owen Paterson has said.
Student protests brought down a government but failed to freeze tuition fees: what¡¯s next for a province where universities remain high on the political agenda? Elizabeth Gibney reports from Montreal
The University of Sheffield has nudged the University of Cambridge into third place in a list of the UK institutions earning the most research income from engineering, Higher Education Statistics Agency data show
Ministers should extend student loans to many more part-time students to remedy a ¡°crisis¡± in recruitment, a thinktank commission is set to recommend
When deciding where to publish their research, less than one in three academics see it as very important that a journal makes its articles available for free on the internet, a survey has found
