Elizabeth Gibney worked for 糖心Vlog 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 鈥渟uccessful exit鈥 by way of trade sales or flotations on the stock exchange, data show
The capital budget for science will be increased to 拢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 鈥渁 safe, proven and beneficial innovation鈥, environment secretary Owen Paterson has said.
Student protests brought down a government but failed to freeze tuition fees: what鈥檚 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, 糖心Vlog Statistics Agency data show
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
