A module on building virtual worlds - the first of its kind in the UK - is to be launched at Glasgow Caledonian University. It will teach the design and development of 3D internet "worlds" using...
Academics at the University of Leicester took part in a paper-free seminar on the uses and abuses of social media via Twitter. Presenters at last week's event - including academics, politicians,...
A "progression agreement" signed by City University London and five London colleges aims to widen participation in higher education. It focuses on progression from access diploma courses and...
Robots were the subject of a conference held at King's College London last week. The first International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots discussed topics such as domestic uses for...
The University of Liverpool's refurbished engineering building sets out to transform the teaching of the subject through its Active Learning Laboratory.The development has already changed Liverpool's...
Universities are improving participation rates and achievement levels among students with disabilities, a study suggests.An analysis of the enrolment and graduation of students with disabilities...
Scholars are researching sustainability but not instituting it on campus, writes Zoë Corbyn
United States - Axe falls at HarvardHarvard University has announced that it will cut 5 jobs in response to the collapse of its endowment income. It appears that most of the institution's ten schools...
Economic development strategy calls for foreign boost to knowledge economy, writes Phil Baty
A £13.5m facility will open new avenues of research by enabling the sequencing of plant DNA. Lee Bunce writes
WELLCOME TRUST AND THE ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILA total of £41 million has been awarded to four new UK centres of excellence in medical engineering in a joint funding scheme...
Joined-up public sector data should be on offer in the information age and Nigel Shadbolt plans to show the way
The pro vice-chancellor and chief executive of University Campus Suffolk has announced his retirement. Bob Anderson, who has been in the post since January 2006, has steered the institution from its...
The diversity of Britain's higher education sector is one of its greatest strengths, the incoming chief executive of Universities UK has said.Speaking to ߣߣÊÓƵ, Nicola Dandridge, who...
Rocketing refusal rates put off international cohort, seminar hears. Rebecca Attwood reports