Student union support
The Government has pledged £280,000 to allow student unions to participate in a new quality programme - the Students' Union Evaluation Initiative. It aims to improve student unions' governance,...
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Cosmic prize awarded
A conservation biologist whose research focuses on global environmental changes and their impact on biodiversity and people has been awarded the 2007 International Cosmos Prize. Georgina Mace,...
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Access agenda is now back on track
Reversing last year's backward slide, entry to higher education by students from poorer families shows a modest rise. Ministers breathed a sigh of relief this week as the annual higher education...
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Research elite spin funding into gold
This year's performance indicators reveal the widening efficiency gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots" in research funding. The data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency includes an...
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The hard work to halt attrition starts to pay off
Universities have achieved modest improvements in dropout rates in the past year. The annual performance indicators from Higher Education Statistics Agency show that 8.8 per cent of students who...
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Gender gap unchanged
Gender equality has not changed over the past ten years, a group of researchers at Manchester University have found. Francesca Gains, Claire Annesley and Kirstein Rummery claim in their book, New...
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Govt websites panned
The Government's websites are difficult to understand and lacking in information despite the £208 million spent on them, according to a joint paper by researchers at Oxford University and the London...
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Derby translation coup
An Iraqi student from Derby University has developed a wrist-mounted gadget that translates Arabic and Kurdish that will be made available to military and police services. Amin Ismail's potentially...
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School fruit pointless
Free fruit at school is not improving children's health, according to research from Leeds University. Joan Ransley analysed the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme 2004 and found that after seven...
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Extra-solar discovery
An international team has discovered water on an extra-solar planet for only the second time. The researchers, led by Giovanna Tinetti of the European Space Agency and University College London's...
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Mole-skins age better
People with large numbers of moles may age more slowly than expected, according to a study from King's College London. Researchers studied the skin and markers of biological ageing in more than 1,800...
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Anti-plagiarism gadget
Students at Sheffield Hallam University have adapted a photocopier to allow users to check essays for plagiarism. Xerox photocopiers connected to the internet can be used by students before they hand...
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Common faith in a brighter future
With Jewish-Muslim relations at a low, academics at a new interfaith centre vow to work for dialogue and understanding. Cambridge University's new Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations (...
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Mature students welcome
Cash-strapped US universities have a new revenue stream - retirement villages on campus. Sunlight streams through the windows of Myril Axelrod's neatly appointed apartment. She watches as a...
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Short-term thinking on job moves in EU
Funding bodies should provide more money for short-term moves by academics between universities in the European Union, a new report has recommended. The study by the European Law and Policy Research...