Dame Barbara Stocking vows to empower women
New head of all-women Murray Edwards College, Cambridge makes equality a priority

New head of all-women Murray Edwards College, Cambridge makes equality a priority

Eastern exposureA first-year student has spent months painstakingly capturing the changing face of his university campus on film, which has become a hit online. Morten Rustad, a business management...

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Yachtswoman’s charity funds research into innovative economic ideas

Demise of matched funding leaves majority of institutions worse off. David Matthews reports

Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Martin BuckInstitution: Imperial College LondonValue: £241,106Quantitative live cell imaging of enhancer-dependent gene expressionAward...
Racism in UK academia remains as prevalent as it was 20 years ago, the author of a study looking at the experiences of black and minority ethnic academics has said.Of 65 academics interviewed for the...

Japan has been named Asia’s top country for higher education and research in Times Higher Education’s first Asia University Rankings.The University of Tokyo, which claimed top spot in the inaugural...

Ellen MacArthur’s foundation is funding research into innovative economic ideas. Chris Parr reports

Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Martin BuckInstitution: Imperial College LondonValue: £241,106Quantitative live cell imaging of enhancer-dependent gene expressionAward...




Far below Romanian soil lies the Movile Cave, a chthonic environment sealed off from light and the outside world for millions of years. Jack Grove reports on a UK scientist’s descent into research...

In a world untouched by the Sun for millennia, a UK scientist found research heaven and arachnophobe hell