Mushrooms are being used by scientists to create a new microstructure that could replace fat in foods such as mayonnaise and margarine. The team from the University of Birmingham's Centre for...
Criminology and cancer will be among the diverse range of subjects studied at a new Postgraduate Statistics Centre at Lancaster University. The newly opened facility, one of 74 centres for excellence...
Student entrepreneurs will benefit from a new enterprise centre at Coventry University. The centre, which opened last week, will have a business support unit and office space as well as offering...
Seaweed and crab shell are being used by scientists to create a new material for dressing wounds to help accelerate healing. A team from the University of Bolton are developing a new medical textile...
Two academics from the University of Northampton's Business School are studying the extent of "techno-addiction" in the UK. The research is being led by Nada Kakabadse, a professor in management and...
A new forum was launched last week at the University of East Anglia to confront the threat from "the forgotten greenhouse gas", nitrous oxide. The Nitrous Oxide Focus Group, which is being co-...
A consortium of researchers has beaten competition from 31 other groups to win a £4.7 million grant to teach a "baby" robot to speak. Under the four-year ITALK (Integration and Transfer of Action and...
An academic is hoping to win a place in history as one of the world's fastest motorcyclists. University of Essex sports psychologist Murray Griffin will try to break the land speed record in August....
Research into how students who excel at sport juggle training schedules with studying and social life is providing invaluable support for members of the Elite Sports Squad at the University of Wales...
SNP secures Lib Dems' backing in return for review of student support package. Tariq Tahir reports
University of Cambridge academics are voting this week on controversial plans to double the number of outsiders on the institution's governing body.Critics say the proposal to have four external...
Australia's research assessment revamp to use refereeing alongside metrics, John Gill writes
INDIAE-LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES EXPANDA boom in e-learning is being hailed as an opportunity for Indians who did not attend university to benefit from higher education. S. Ramachandran, the vice-...
Institutions say keeping tabs on non-EU students is an impossible task, Melanie Newman reports
The number of students studying for higher education qualifications in colleges of further education has been falling since 2004.The Conservative Party said this week that the neglect of such...