For the third year in a row, Oxford and Reading have ranked as the top performing UK cities on PwC’s Good Growth for Cities 2019 index. The annual Good Growth for Cities 2019 index sets out to show there is more to life, work and general...
Sense Biodetection, a diagnostics company which operates from both Cambridge and Oxford, has raised £12.3 million to develop a new range of tests, with the main focus being to target infectious diseases like flu. The money raised will be added to a £1.8 million grant received...
The UK Government is committing £220 million for the conceptual design of a fusion power station, the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP), which will move the UK towards zero carbon, safe and abundant commercial fusion electricity. The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial...
The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings have been unveiled for 2020, with data collected and considered from 1,400 institutions worldwide. The rankings are described as the only international league table to assess universities for all their activities including, teaching, research, citations, international outlook and...
A £67 million grant from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund has been agreed for the UK’s first dedicated Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (VMIC) located at Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire and headed up by Dr Duchars. The grant will allow the VMIC to provide facilities and subject...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson chose the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) at Culham Science Centre, Oxfordshire to make his first science announcement, unveiling plans to develop a new fast-track visa route for the brightest and best scientists to continue to move to the UK after...
Oxfordshire and Berkshire-based companies will be among 16 South East SMEs to benefit from a recently announced £137 million commitment from BGF (Business Growth Fund), an investment partner for growing companies in every sector of the economy. The pledge is part of a wider £2...
A partnership and investment programme between the University of Oxford and Legal & General has recently been announced. Over a 10-year period, £4bn will see the master-planning and development of new homes at the number one university in the world, alongside the creation of science...
The Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, visited the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA's) Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) in Oxfordshire last month. Based at Culham Science Centre, CCFE is home to the country’s fusion research programme, centred on the MAST...
The University of Oxford, one of the world’s leading centres for research and development, has published a new guide to AI. The publication describes how AI and machine learning techniques are allowing clinicians to diagnose more accurately conditions such as heart disease; how the banking...