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.
UK women made up 40 per cent of A-level maths students in 2011 but just 6 per cent of professors in the subject, data collated for the London Mathematical Society show
The University of the West of England has opted not to close its politics and international relations department after a campaign by students and staff to save it.
UK businesses are being failed by the government’s lack of a “coherent strategy to support the commercialisation of technological innovation in the UK”, MPs have said.
The Higher Education Policy Institute has mounted a successful drive to recruit more university partners, with the institutions helping to secure the independent thinktank’s long-term future.
The next European Union research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020, has been allocated a budget of almost €71 billion (£60.4 billion) in an agreement reached on 8 February.
