A new forum was launched last week at the University of East Anglia to confront the threat from "the forgotten greenhouse gas", nitrous oxide. The Nitrous Oxide Focus Group, which is being co-...
A consortium of researchers has beaten competition from 31 other groups to win a £4.7 million grant to teach a "baby" robot to speak. Under the four-year ITALK (Integration and Transfer of Action and...
An academic is hoping to win a place in history as one of the world's fastest motorcyclists. University of Essex sports psychologist Murray Griffin will try to break the land speed record in August....
Research into how students who excel at sport juggle training schedules with studying and social life is providing invaluable support for members of the Elite Sports Squad at the University of Wales...
SNP secures Lib Dems' backing in return for review of student support package. Tariq Tahir reports
University of Cambridge academics are voting this week on controversial plans to double the number of outsiders on the institution's governing body.Critics say the proposal to have four external...
ߣߣÊÓƵ's research assessment revamp to use refereeing alongside metrics, John Gill writes
INDIAE-LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES EXPANDA boom in e-learning is being hailed as an opportunity for Indians who did not attend university to benefit from higher education. S. Ramachandran, the vice-...
Institutions say keeping tabs on non-EU students is an impossible task, Melanie Newman reports
The number of students studying for higher education qualifications in colleges of further education has been falling since 2004.The Conservative Party said this week that the neglect of such...
HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY80% of postgraduates happyEight in ten students on taught postgraduate courses rate the experience as having met or exceeded their expectations, a study has found. The Higher...
Violent scuffles at Wolverhampton Polytechnic, at a private meeting of the Conservative Student Association addressed by South African Embassy Secretary Louis Mullinder, raised questions about free...
Universities fear ELQ policy will invite applicants to omit qualifications. Rebecca Attwood reports
Academics are using social bookmarking sites to share papers and to track research. Zoe Corbyn reports
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILThe latest funding announcement from the ESRC commits £2.5 million to increase international collaboration with India, China, Brazil and the US in the areas of...