Research into computer games is essential in understanding the digital revolution, according to the organisers of a Bristol conference. Jon Dovey, who ran the Game Cultures weekend, said ludology was...
A PhD student has developed a website to reduce traffic congestion in Manchester by making parking easier. The site was designed by Ioannis Tsopelas, of the University of Manchester Institute of...
Regional consortia could offer stability to institutions that are not wannabe Oxbridges. But John Ashworth isn't holding his breath. Twenty years ago the then University Grants Committee imposed a...
Wider participation is important, but so is ensuring that existing students graduate, argues Liz Allen. Week after week, the headlines are filled with initiatives to help open higher education to non...
Ann Oakley says it is arrogant of academics to dismiss new approaches. Every era in educational policy breeds its own buzz words and one of today's is undoubtedly "evidence". It is clear that there...
Whoa! Rein the horses, stop the wagon train, form a circle. The vandals have come down from the hills and civilisation is under threat. If we lose this one, well, who cares? This is it, the big one,...
The magic-bullet drugs of the past century are beginning to tarnish. Today's bugs are smarter and tougher. Indiscriminate use has contributed to the demise of many drugs. The challenge we face is to...
Nothing was going to keep the world's scientists away from Africa and from trying to solve the sun's greatest mystery. Aisling Irwin reports Scientists still travel thousands of miles to spend...
Because they, like the impala, were spooked when the sky went black. Astronomer Paul Murdin basks in the spectacle of the 21st century's first total solar eclipse and describes its effects on the...
Is the external examiner a paid patsy or a fair arbiter? Jonathan Brill reflects on the job he has done for 25 years. I am at the end of 25 years as an external examiner variously in pop music,...
Space and movement sound like elements of an acting class, but Sherry Jordon has found that using them to dramatise points makes her teaching more effective. Several years ago I attended a series of...
Estimates of a near £1 million price tag for a university ombudsman to deal with student complaints could be a gross under-estimation, student leaders warned this week. A consultation paper on the...
Geoff Palmer, a professor Heriot-Watt University, has written a modern fable about prejudice, Mr White and The Ravens , published by Gopher Publications. Moussa Jogee, of the Commission for Racial...
The decision by one of the leading stem-cell researchers to move to Britain could herald a brain drain from the United States, according to US scientists. Roger Pedersen, a professor of reproductive...
School pupils fear universities will ignore their AS-level qualifications in favour of traditional A levels, according to a draft report published this week by the Institute of Education. The report...