Researchers are learning more about how humans understand and use language by getting ordinary people to read short stories and Wikipedia articles in an online game called Phrase Detectives. The...
Zoe Corbyn on how Hefce cash can support firms during the tightening recession
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilThe BBSRC has launched the virtual Sustainable Bioenergy Centre, a £ million project that consists of six programmes aimed at cutting the cost of...
A tradition of dissent and self-rule among heretics and rebels makes Cambridge successful, says Ross Anderson
For his PhD, Daniel Bennett had built a unique set of faecal samples from a rare lizard. When it was destroyed, he really hit bottom
Gary Day wonders whether gratuitous cussing and killing are the keys to our evolutionary triumph
A PhD candidate is threatening to take his university to court after it destroyed 35kg of lizard excrement - the material for his research project.Working in the faculty of biological sciences at the...
V-c chose to leave rather than face suspension over bullying allegations, says Melanie Newman
A pioneering medical researcher has revealed how he took his first steps down his career path - by sending a letter to Blue Peter. Anthony Hollander was nine when he found a dying bird in his garden...
Students, staff, MPs urge support for institution in wake of Hefce clawback. Rebecca Attwood reports
Kingston and Portsmouth universities have confirmed that they are among the institutions that must repay part of their teaching grant to the Higher Education Funding Council for England after...
Aspire programme pairs private-sector chiefs with lecturers keen to progress. Hannah Fearn reports
'Nationally significant' work deserves RAE-based cash, too, says think-tank. Zoe Corbyn writes
The Universities Superannuation Scheme had more than enough assets to pay for current and former members' pensions as of 31 March 2008, the scheme's valuation report, due out this month, will say.But...
Call for Government to extend 'free at enrolment' funding to all. Rebecca Attwood reports