Despite being the architect of one of the Covid vaccines, Oxford has fallen behind the University of Leicester for medical research in the latest academic rankings.
Experts said the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), which is carried out by Research England and measures the volume, quality and impact of research produced at different universities, shows high-quality research is spread evenly across the UK and will boost the government’s “levelling up” agenda.
While Oxbridge and other Russell Group universities have been ranked highly, other universities such as Northumbria and Leicester have leapt up the rankings since the league table was last published in 2014.
In the last REF, Oxford took top place for clinical medicine. In results tables compiled by Times Higher Education, it has fallen
