City University London - Easing the progression
A "progression agreement" signed by City University London and five London colleges aims to widen participation in higher education. It focuses on progression from access diploma courses and...
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Automatons for the future
Robots were the subject of a conference held at King's College London last week. The first International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots discussed topics such as domestic uses for...
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Original features
The University of Liverpool's refurbished engineering building sets out to transform the teaching of the subject through its Active Learning Laboratory.The development has already changed Liverpool's...
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Access widens as student-with-disability numbers more than double
Universities are improving participation rates and achievement levels among students with disabilities, a study suggests.An analysis of the enrolment and graduation of students with disabilities...
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When it comes to saving the environment, academics don't practise what they preach
Scholars are researching sustainability but not instituting it on campus, writes Zoë Corbyn
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Overseas briefing
United States - Axe falls at HarvardHarvard University has announced that it will cut 5 jobs in response to the collapse of its endowment income. It appears that most of the institution's ten schools...
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Hong Kong opens up to overseas providers
Economic development strategy calls for foreign boost to knowledge economy, writes Phil Baty
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Learn the secret life of plants
A £13.5m facility will open new avenues of research by enabling the sequencing of plant DNA. Lee Bunce writes
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Grant winners
WELLCOME TRUST AND THE ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILA total of £41 million has been awarded to four new UK centres of excellence in medical engineering in a joint funding scheme...
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Access all areas
Joined-up public sector data should be on offer in the information age and Nigel Shadbolt plans to show the way
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Appointments
The pro vice-chancellor and chief executive of University Campus Suffolk has announced his retirement. Bob Anderson, who has been in the post since January 2006, has steered the institution from its...
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Diversity a key strength, says UUK's next head
The diversity of Britain's higher education sector is one of its greatest strengths, the incoming chief executive of Universities UK has said.Speaking to Times Higher Education, Nicola Dandridge, who...
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Visa regime hurts UK as study destination
Rocketing refusal rates put off international cohort, seminar hears. Rebecca Attwood reports
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'Sandpits' bring out worst in 'infantilised' researchers
Scholars say interdisciplinary workshops feel like a reality-TV race for cash. Zoë Corbyn writes
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'Learning how to learn' vital for student survival
"Learning how to learn" is the single most important teaching objective for universities as they prepare students for a 21st-century version of Darwin's survival of the fittest, a conference has...