Profile: Gerald Pillay Vice-chancellor, Liverpool Hope University. There can't be many academics who have been appointed to a post only to be told that they can't live anywhere near their new...
Freshers arriving at Glamorgan University this week are being helped to settle in with a "student experience simulation". "GlamStart" is a web- based game available to all new students, which...
A breast-screening "smart bra" that allows users to detect breast cancer at the earliest stage is being developed by the Centre for Materials Research and Innovation at Bolton University. Elias...
Women are more responsible scuba divers than men, according to a Hull University study. Mandy Shackleton, a masters student from the university's Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences, said...
Sheffield University is launching a new centre for the study of genocide. The Sheffield Centre for the Study of Genocide and Mass Violence will have an interdisciplinary approach, and its concerns...
A new catalogue of stars, believed to be the most accurate ever, has been published as the result of a decade's research by a Cambridge University academic, giving the distances to almost 118,000...
Study pinpoints need to adapt facilities to reflect increased IT use and project work. Chloe Stothart reports. Universities will have to invest heavily in revamping their library facilities, it was...
"Safety net" funding is being offered to universities to minimise the impact of a government decision to cut funding for students studying second degrees, as a petition against the proposal gathers...
Commission proposals to establish European Research Area gloss over chronic underfunding, says European Universities Association. Chloe Stothart reports. University heads have voiced fears over the...
Universities have to fight to eradicate the bogus colleges that harm the UK's reputation, says Gerald Vinten. Rather like in the movie Jaws , it seems that one never knows what is lurking in the...
King's College London, like most UK universities, has a large number of students on one-year masters programmes; and "one year" means what it says. One cohort hands in its finished dissertations at...
New EPSRC head Dave Delpy sets out his mission to hit short and long- term goals. Any student of science will tell you that Michael Faraday's research led to the development of practical devices such...
Tim Wilson, vice-chancellor of Hertfordshire, calls for the creation of a new generation of commerce-friendly universities. It has been heartening for academe to hear Government and Opposition...
Reallocation of education funds is about social justice and augmenting the national pool of skills, says Bill Rammell. The Government's decision to funnel £100 million away from students taking...
Tim Birkhead's frustrations struck a chord with academics burdened by unthinking bureaucracy. My recent column on stifling administration ("Blank faces and bungled systems", September 21) elicited an...