East Anglia/Southampton - Bee prepared for old age
Bee behaviour and what it can tell us about the process of ageing in other animals, including humans, is the subject of a joint project by the University of East Anglia and the University of...
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University of East London - Business initiative boost
Business start-ups in London's Thames Gateway are to be supported with the help of an East End entrepreneur. The Petchey Centre for Entrepreneurship was launched on 25 March at the University of East...
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Kingston/Royal Holloway - Child abuse prevention
A new research centre will look at ways to improve detection of child abuse to help prevent future cases like that of Baby P. The Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies is a partnership between Kingston...
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Queen's University Belfast - Cancer research first
Northern Ireland's first Cancer Research UK centre has opened at Queen's University Belfast. The centre will research new treatments with fewer side-effects for cancer sufferers, and focus in...
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University of Essex - Lecture marks a head start
A public lecture by leading Harvard University neuroscientist Alvaro Pascual-Leone marked the opening of a new Centre for Brain Science at the University of Essex. Based in the department of...
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Cranfield University - Fast-track medical developments
Cranfield University has relaunched its masters degree in translational medicine in an attempt to speed the journey from "bench to bedside" - that is, the often very long period it takes before...
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Queen's University Belfast - You'd be crabby, too
Crabs suffer and remember pain, according to new research. The study, by Bob Elwood and Mirjam Appel from Queen's University Belfast, looked at the reactions of hermit crabs to small electric shocks...
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Original features
Horace Walpole - son of Britain's first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole - bought a modest cottage in Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, in 1747. He doubled its size, added towers and battlements, and...
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Gloucestershire must save £5 million over two years
V-c says staff costs must be cut; UCU blames poor management for crisis. Melanie Newman reports
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Swansea staff demand rethink of cuts in light of healthy RAE payout
Plans to deliver 3 per cent surplus were formed before big funding award, writes Melanie Newman
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Heriot-Watt's failure to consult 'against the law'
The University and College Union at Heriot-Watt University has accused managers of breaking employment law by warning individual members of staff that they are at risk of compulsory redundancy ahead...
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Jobs threatened at three universities
Eighty staff at Thames Valley University have already agreed to leave under a voluntary severance scheme introduced last year, but the university said further savings are required. "A targeted...
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Overseas briefing
United StatesMeasures of successAcademics must seize the initiative by showing how success should be measured in higher education, an American expert on accreditation has said. Judith Eaton,...
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Nordic pair eye a slice of rich markets overseas abroad market
Finland and Sweden plan to cash in by charging non-EU students for tuition, writes Will Sillitoe
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Throw in a dash of politics
Political scientists and others new to energy research are being sought to help shape policy, writes Zoë Corbyn