It has been branded the ultimate "vague, wishy-washy" subject: the study of "just any old thing", which is subject to further ridicule by its "naff" name. But hundreds of academics will rally this...
More senior academics are leaving Britain than migrating into the country, according to a report by Universities UK, writes Melanie Newman. In its policy briefing on the international market in...
The family of the late Dame Anne McLaren and the late Donald Michie have established memorial funds in their names. A fund to support female scientists will be named in honour of Dame Anne, the first...
The Government has pledged £280,000 to allow student unions to participate in a new quality programme - the Students' Union Evaluation Initiative. It aims to improve student unions' governance,...
A conservation biologist whose research focuses on global environmental changes and their impact on biodiversity and people has been awarded the 2007 International Cosmos Prize. Georgina Mace,...
Reversing last year's backward slide, entry to higher education by students from poorer families shows a modest rise. Ministers breathed a sigh of relief this week as the annual higher education...
This year's performance indicators reveal the widening efficiency gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots" in research funding. The data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency includes an...
Universities have achieved modest improvements in dropout rates in the past year. The annual performance indicators from Higher Education Statistics Agency show that 8.8 per cent of students who...
Gender equality has not changed over the past ten years, a group of researchers at Manchester University have found. Francesca Gains, Claire Annesley and Kirstein Rummery claim in their book, New...
The Government's websites are difficult to understand and lacking in information despite the £208 million spent on them, according to a joint paper by researchers at Oxford University and the London...
An Iraqi student from Derby University has developed a wrist-mounted gadget that translates Arabic and Kurdish that will be made available to military and police services. Amin Ismail's potentially...
Free fruit at school is not improving children's health, according to research from Leeds University. Joan Ransley analysed the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme 2004 and found that after seven...
An international team has discovered water on an extra-solar planet for only the second time. The researchers, led by Giovanna Tinetti of the European Space Agency and University College London's...
People with large numbers of moles may age more slowly than expected, according to a study from King's College London. Researchers studied the skin and markers of biological ageing in more than 1,800...
Students at Sheffield Hallam University have adapted a photocopier to allow users to check essays for plagiarism. Xerox photocopiers connected to the internet can be used by students before they hand...