Women may undergo the menopause to reduce reproductive competition between generations in the same family, scientists have suggested. Teams at the University of Cambridge and the University of Exeter...
Journalism studies students from Sheffield Hallam University are to work in the Beijing Olympic press office during the Olympic Games in August. Twenty-four students will travel to Beijing to write...
A public consultation over controversial expansion into green-belt land has been launched by the University of Bath. The university has been given permission by councillors to develop about 40 acres...
Researchers in the Cardiff School of Biosciences will work with international colleagues on a project to sequence the giant panda genome. The collaboration will help scientists to understand the...
A computer that "thinks" in Welsh has been created by scientists at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. A computer running the Konrad software, developed by Derek J. Smith, a lecturer in UWIC's...
The archaeology of food and drink will be the subject of a conference this week at the University of Nottingham. The event will consider consumption practices of the past, the use of food to...
Some might see it as art, but for others it's just a load of pants. Staff and students at the University of Abertay Dundee took part in a drawing competition - on pairs of knickers. The stunt, to...
Boozy students are damaging not only their health but also their academic performance by drinking too much alcohol.Researchers at Edge Hill University who studied a sample of 46 second-year students...
Paper argues that such a move will help universities conform to disability law. Melanie Newman reports
While non-traditional students see improved salaries as a result of attending university, they also increase their risk of mental illness later in life, research by the Institute of Education has...
European states are to offer funding to research finalists, but not the UK. Zoe Corbyn reports
INDIAGreater student capacity urgedThe flow of Indian students to overseas universities could be stemmed by increased investment in new institutions, a government adviser has said. Concerns about the...
John Gill learns about gossip, heroes and 'masters of the universe' from Sheffield Hallam's Phil Jones
The Government's director-general for higher education has called MPs on the Public Accounts Committee "horrible people" after they criticised universities' dropout rates.Ruth Thompson, the senior...
Administrators share tales of their rocky working relationships with academics. John Gill reports