A new research radar based in Antarctica is allowing scientists at the University of Bath to study the impact of climate change on the highest layer of the Earth's atmosphere.The study is an example...
Universities will soon have to display certificates declaring the carbon footprint of every major building on campus or face fines under new European Union regulations.The legislation, which comes...
The UK's 'innovation economy' will stall without skilled graduates, body warns. Zoe Corbyn writes.
A lack of research quality in its universities is harming Wales's prospects for greater economic growth, the Welsh Assembly has been told.The Assembly's Enterprise and Learning Committee is currently...
Cash may be cut if targets on participation, quality and reforms are missed. John Gill reports.
CHINA: DECLINE IN POSTGRADUATE ENTRANTSThe number of students taking China's national postgraduate entrance exam has fallen for the first time in a decade. The Ministry of Education said that 1.2...
The funding council admits it is missing its targets on ethnicity, gender and disability. John Gill reports.
Academics at The Open University who hoped to see colour co-ordination at graduation ceremonies and an end to bright blue gowns with clashing black mortarboards were nursing their disappointment. The...
QUALITY ASSURANCE AGENCY: Ofsted, QAA to work togetherThe quality watchdogs for schools and universities have joined forces in a partnership designed to reduce red tape. Christine Gilbert, head of...
A ten-year dispute over the University of Cambridge's plans to floodlight an athletics track is due to come to a head this week.The planning department of the Cambridge City Council is set to give...
Ex-colleagues petition Buckingham Palace for honour to be revoked, writes Zoe Corbyn.
The number of academics whose work has been submitted for the research assessment exercise has increased by nearly 6,000 compared with the last exercise in 2001, figures from the Higher Education...
- The press took a number of different positions on a research report on university admissions by the 1994 Group of smaller research-led universities on 23 January. The Daily Telegraph reported that...
The focus on market-driven wealth creation within academic research is "morally bankrupt" and leaves academics feeling like prostitutes, a professor of physics at the University of Nottingham has...
Perceived safety and high standards help to make Britain a top student destination. John Gill reports.