An extra £3 million is to be invested in enhancing research at Birmingam City University. The funding, spread across three years, comes on top of an existing £10 million pledge being used to expand...
The landmark work of the 16th-century British travel editor, Richard Hakluyt, is to be republished as part of an ambitious project co-led by Nottingham Trent University. The medieval geographer, who...
A new lead for treatments of Parkinson's disease has been discovered by scientists at the University of Sheffield. A study identified a pathway inside nerve cells that could be stimulated to protect...
The School of Medicine at the University of Cardiff has apologised after it wrongly told four students they had passed their final exams and qualified as doctors. The four, who had taken up hospital...
The once-pioneering UK recording studio sector is dying, largely thanks to the destabilising economic effect of software. Research at the University of Nottingham suggests that the progressive...
The academic governance structure at the University of Edinburgh has been overhauled. It has set up new committees to replace the old academic policy, senatus undergraduate, postgraduate studies and...
A gigantic glacier, twice the size of Scotland, is thinning at record pace, scientists have warned. The Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is shrinking four times as fast as it was ten years ago...
Standing at the entrance to the Queensgate Campus, the University of Huddersfield's new creative arts building opened last year and has already established itself as a landmark on the ring road...
Some have odd titles, but many debates at the RGS conference are deadly serious, writes Matthew Reisz
THE readers debate the thorny issue of minimum requirement for academics. Ciaran Jones listens in
Academics are being invited to draw up a list of large facilities they would like to see built. Zoë Corbyn reports
Economic and Social Research CouncilA total of £1.5 million is to be provided to nine projects that will conduct research into innovative services, products, processes and business models with the...
Dianne Berry says the HE framework must account for the future potential of universities, not just their current work
Jon F. Baldwin argues that incorporating universities into BIS may lead to a recognition of the real export value of the sector
Credit: Nick NewmanThe A-level results released on 20 August were better than ever, for the th year in a row, with a pass rate of 97.5 per cent and more than one in four grades an A. Commentators...