Regional universities in the UK will get a funding boost over the next seven years after a national survey found they had improved the quality of their research.
Birmingham, Northumbria, Leicester and Hull were among the universities to most improve their rankings in the Research Excellence Framework (REF), a government-backed survey that takes place every seven years and published its findings on Thursday.
While the so-called “golden triangle” of world-leading institutions such as Imperial College London, Cambridge and Oxford remained the highest-ranking in the survey, experts said the strong performance of regional universities showed they could compete with those traditionally prized for research and help address regional inequalities.
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