Elizabeth Gibney worked for 成人VR视频 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.
Ten Australian universities are performing “above the world standard” for research, including four performing “well above” world standard, according to an evaluation of Australian research.
A managerial culture is growing in universities as they “position themselves to align more systematically with government and industrial sectors”, a conference has heard.
All eyes are on Brazil’s academy and its rising research output, generous funding and willingness to team up internationally in a bid to become a major player. Elizabeth Gibney reports from S?o Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
James Stirling has been named as the first provost of Imperial College London - a position created in April when leadership of the institution was split in two.
University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking has been awarded a $3 million (?1.9 million) prize from the Milner Foundation for his contribution to fundamental physics.
Academics at the University of Sussex say they were left stunned at a meeting of the institution’s senate when management refused to discuss motions put forward by union members of 17 departments over the closure of a childcare scheme.
The UK needs to double the annual number of graduates in engineering by 2020 if it is to meet the expected demand for such skills, the government was told today.
Two Midlands university business schools have won a bid to create a research centre that the government hopes will boost the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK.
