Elizabeth Gibney worked for 探花视频 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.
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.
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鈥檚 Horizon 2020 programme from 2014 will have to be published through either the 鈥済old鈥 or 鈥済reen鈥 open-access routes, it has been confirmed.
The European Union will tomorrow launch a call for bids for 鈧8.1 billion (拢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 鈥渂reakthrough in world science鈥, 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.
