The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) has selected Manchester Metropolitan University to pilot a scheme aimed at helping graduates set up local businesses and boost the regional economy....
Is forgetting a necessary process that societies must undergo in order to progress? This is the question that will be addressed at a conference, Cultural Memory: Forgetting to Remember/Remembering to...
A mother and her son have both achieved degrees from the University of Teesside in the same year and will graduate on the same day. Angela Russell, 47, will receive a BSc (hons) in promoting practice...
The world record for the largest model of DNA has been claimed by the University of Huddersfield. The record-breaking DNA model measures 21.5m - just short of the length of a cricket pitch - and...
A national cancer tissue bank is building reserves. Its head tells Zoe Corbyn it could spur advances
TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY BOARDThe Technology Strategy Board, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council have joined forces to back three projects...
One anthropologist thinks doomsday sceptics are being unfairly silenced. Melanie Newman reports
After two weeks on holiday, with time to think, Gloria Monday considers whether she should leave the exhausting world of academia take the less-regimented option of life in the military
Royal Geographical Society head refutes claims of field's demise. Donna Bowater reports
Report from top academics suggests a greater role for business in courses, writes Zoe Corbyn
Lists of howlers have been cascading in. A University of Marburg student's essay on local student life, sent in by Dr Alan Robertson of St Andrews University, (said): "Students in Marburg have little...
Universities UKDegree credit system publishedA single national higher education credit system - which ensures that students at different universities accumulate academic credit towards their degrees...
Heriot-Watt's Greg Michaelson has traded writing computer science textbooks for a work of fiction, discovers Olga Wojtas
"Naked scientist" and Cambridge academic Chris Smith has won the Kohn Award from the Royal Society for his work in bringing science to a wider audience. Dr Smith is a clinical lecturer and specialist...
British academics must stop being monoculturalists and embrace the influx of foreign students, says William Burns