The Centre for Vision Science has been boosted by grants of more than £500,000 from three charities to investigate the leading causes of blindness in the UK. Over the next three years, a team of...
One of the most extensive and important 20th-century theatre design archives has a new home at Wimbledon College of Art. The relocation of the archives of Jocelyn Herbert will allow students access...
Greater contract flexibility and a switch to low-cost programmes mooted. Melanie Newman reports
One government department is at loggerheads with another over cuts in funding for students studying second degrees, it emerged this week.Correspondence leaked to Times Higher Education reveals that...
UCASSTUDENTS' DECLINED OFFERS PROBEDUniversities hope to gain greater insight into what makes applicants accept or decline their offer of a place. A forthcoming survey by the Universities and...
The principal of Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology, David Kennedy, has launched an attack on "intellectual snobbery" that downgrades the Scottish central institutions because of their...
RCUK has £12m to help institutions build bridges with research-active nations, says Zoe Corbyn
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL- Award winner: Graham Leggett- Institution: University of Sheffield- Value: £411,344Mechanics of nanoscale single asperity contacts in friction...
Richard Daniels brings his enthusiasm for Stanley Kubrick's films to his work as an archivist at the University of Arts London
The head of the Royal College of Art has announced his decision to leave next summer, after 35 years at the college. Sir Christopher Frayling has been rector of the Royal College of Art since 1996,...
Understanding demographic trends is key to the survival of universities over the next two decades, says Sir Muir Russell
We'll turn up for lectures if you treat us with respect, give us feedback and remember our names, writes a mature first-year student
In an e-savvy world, an anachronistic gentlemen's agreement should not be limiting science reporting, write Claire Bithell and Simon Levey
Manchester developers say software can handle complex essay questions. Rebecca Attwood reports
Proposals to double the number of outsiders on the University of Cambridge's governing council were voted through this week.The academics, college heads and senior university officers who make up the...