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.
The European Commission's efforts to create a single market for research across Europe by 2014, a deadline set last year by European Union ministers, have entered a new phase.
University College London's museums and laboratories will host more than 300 secondary school pupils from this September, after delays to the building of their UCL-sponsored academy left them without a school.
Members of the Million+ group of universities awarded more PhDs relative to their quality-related research income than any other mission group in 2010-11, performance indicators published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency show.
Research funded through the European Union¡¯s Horizon 2020 programme from 2014 will have to be published through either the ¡°gold¡± or ¡°green¡± open-access routes, it has been confirmed.
The European Union will tomorrow launch a call for bids for €8.1 billion (?6.4 billion) in research funding as part of the final year of its Framework 7 programme.
The discovery of a particle with all the hallmarks of the long-sought Higgs boson is a ¡°breakthrough in world science¡±, universities and science minister David Willetts said today.
London will host the pharmaceuticals division of a new European court designed to handle patent disputes, the heads of European Union states agreed on 29 June.
The government should resist changing copyright law to allow free ¡°mining¡± of data and text in scientific papers, a cross-party group of MPs has said.
