Keele University - Joint effort to reduce pain
Treatment of a painful joint condition may improve thanks to a project at Keele University. Researchers have won £788,000 in funding for a five-year study of osteoarthritis, a condition that affects...
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De Montfort University - Smart ways to tackle the crunch
Help is at hand for small businesses in Leicestershire worried about how to deal with the threat of recession. De Montfort University is offering a free workshop to assist local businesses from all...
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University of Manchester - Food inflation hits Asia's poorest
Three billion Asians face an impending food crisis, according to research carried out by the University of Manchester. Academics say the escalating cost of rice across Asia is slowing economic growth...
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The Robert Gordon University - Rapid response rehearsed
Businesses' survival may depend on their readiness to deal with terrorist or extremist activity, ranging from bomb threats and chemical or biological contamination to vandalism. The Robert Gordon...
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University of Wales, Newport - 007 tutor shaken but not stirred
One of the special effects in the latest James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, a huge illuminated cube that pulsates to Latin rhythms at a party thrown by the film's villain, was designed and operated...
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University of Edinburgh - Novel appeal for Auden lecture
Fiction was due to turn into poetic fact in Edinburgh this week with Edward Mendelson, professor of humanities at Columbia University in New York, set to recreate a lecture about the poet W.H. Auden...
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Dundee accused of 'running down' child health institute
But university rejects accusations that it has not honoured donors' wishes. John Gill reports
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News in brief
Admissions proceduresLanguage rules may discriminateCertain university admissions procedures may breach equality legislation, the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) has warned. Some universities have a...
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Call to abandon four-year degrees
Money saved could go to help poor Scottish students fund masters study. Olga Wojtas reports
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20 years ago
Treasury pressure to minimise further growth in higher education and tailor it closely to national manpower needs is revealed in this week's leaked papers to a summer think-tank attended by education...
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Better by design: putting learning spaces to work
Olga Wojtas meets an environmental psychologist studying architecture's impact on academic life
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Pick'n'mix not so sweet
Many years ago, Frank Burnet fought for modularisation and credit transfer. The war was won, but victory was pyrrhic
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Fight or flight is the wrong response - there's no danger here
John Widdowson says universities and colleges should focus on the positives aspects of changes to foundation degree-awarding powers
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FE colleges plan low-cost degrees at bachelor level
Vocational university envisaged as a way to meet expansion targets. Melanie Newman reports
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Citation database accuracy queried
Web of Science's owner defends procedures after academic complains of errors, Zoe Corbyn writes