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Articles by Elizabeth Gibney
The viva, the final hurdle to gaining a PhD, is labour-intensive, not conducted to any national standard and is dreaded by students who fear an examiner will capriciously halt their career. Is it still fit for purpose? asks Elizabeth Gibney
A BBC scheme aims to tackle gender inequality
The Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2013 shows a responsive attitude and landmark infrastructure projects help to create contentment. Elizabeth Gibney reports
A bill to reform the libel system in England and Wales is set to become law after completing its passage through the Houses of Parliament.
Academic opposition to outsourcing at the University of Sussex is building, with staff from ten schools, departments and research centres publishing statements supporting protests at the institution.
Ensuring that knowledge translates into growth will be among the priorities the incoming government chief scientific adviser Mark Walport has set himself for the next five years.
A gender gap in researchers’ funding successes persists across Europe
Many doctoral candidates do not make clear their work’s scholarly contribution
Doctoral training centre model poses international challenge for institutions
Arts and humanities PhD graduates from the US are more employable than their UK counterparts, a conference on doctoral education has heard.
Future European funding may depend on identifying how research affects women as well as men
Black and ethnic minority academics still suffer racism, study finds. Elizabeth Gibney reports
Regional competitors are hot on Japan’s heels in inaugural THE Asia University Rankings
A cyclist killed earlier this week in London has been named as University College London academic Katharine Giles.
Three unions at the University of Sussex have begun the process that could lead to strikes over outsourcing plans at the university.
Academics prefer to publish their research under the most restrictive forms of copyright, a survey has suggested
An occupation of the Bramber House conference centre at the University of Sussex has ended following a High Court ruling.
The University of Sussex is still waiting to see if it will be able to evict protesters from an occupation on the campus after a decision at the High Court was adjourned.?
Dean looks to humanities future after Hefce funding renewal
Better regional R&D strategies needed to access structural funds, sector told.
Spending on defence research and development in the UK has declined by 57 per cent since 1989, data from the Office for National Statistics show.
The University of Sussex has been granted an injunction that it says will pave the way towards ending the seven-week occupation of its Bramber House conference centre.
The University of Oxford is set to review its policy on postgraduate admissions after a college reached a settlement with an applicant who claimed it discriminated against poorer students.
Publication not always relevant to business success, industry and sector figures argue
