Elizabeth Gibney

Without proper reporting social and psychological experiments are a “waste of money”, researchers have said.

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

Treatment to avoid cuts would do more harm than good, critics say

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.

UK universities must form business partnerships to demonstrate the need for public investment. By Elizabeth Gibney

Graduates from 1994 Group members are more likely than those of any other mission group to go on to taught postgraduate study, research has found

Editors have noted a “certain level of sloppiness” creeping into research papers, the executive editor of the Nature Publishing Group has said.

More than half of academics are either not aware of universities’ knowledge transfer services or do not use them, a survey has found

Chinese student at Bath convicted on bribery, firearms charges

Survey finds median wages and employment rates are holding steady

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.