Elizabeth Gibney worked for Times Higher Education 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.
Universities contributed £3.4 billion to the UK economy in 2011-12 in services to business and the community, figures published in the Higher Education - Business and Community Interaction Survey 2011-12 show
The government would like to see more publishers take up schemes that waive open access publishing fees for researchers from universities that subscribe to its journals, a senior civil servant has said.
The governmentās innovation agency the Technology Strategy Board will see a Ā£50 million boost to its budget this year, the government has announced.
A ābig dataā health research centre at the University of Oxford has been announced as the latest to benefit from the governmentās UK Research Partnership Investment Fund.
Fewer than ten graduates each from Black Caribbean and Bangladeshi minority groups make the transition to a research degree each academic year, a study has found.