The United Kingdom is failing to keep pace with its competitors in developing the technology behind the creation of tiny devices measuring billionths of a metre, according to a report out this week,...
A DIY ultrasound machine has sparked medical research and development which could mean a small revolution in physiotherapy. As a result of a chance happening, an orthopaedic surgeon at the Institute...
Advanced General National Vocational Qualifications fail to prepare some students adequately for science and mathematics-based higher education, according to a new document. The finding comes from a...
Further education colleges in London could lose up to a third of their budgets if present funding policy continues, a London principal has warned. Figures compiled by Adrian Perry, principal of...
Waiting for Dearing is likely to be the dominant theme in higher education policy over the next year. And it forms the main element in vice chancellors' responses to the Higher Education Funding...
The future of the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle physics laboratory being built at Cern in Geneva, hung in the balance yesterday. Germany's recent non-negotiable demand for a cut of 8.5...
The University of Durham is to review its relationship with one of its colleges after discrepancies were found in the principal's academic record, writes Harriet Swain. Inaccuracies in a work permit...
A TEAM of five from London's South Bank University this week completed an arduous 3,000 kilometre journey across the Australian outback in a solar-powered car, writes Alan Thomson. The university's...
Colleges are to be twinned over the next few months to help collect evidence in the funding argument. The scheme, supported by the Further Education Funding Council and overseen by its Tariff...
Evolutionary psychologists know that we are all instinctively drawn to people with good looks. But they still have to explain how we sift through the available population to find a spouse, according...
Schizophrenics who are taught to put their delusions to the test go on to make speedier recoveries from acute psychosis than patients receiving more established therapies, according to a study co-...
A better understanding of the voracious desert locust's sense of taste could lead to ways of reducing crop damage by insect pests, according Philip Newland of Cambridge University. His research is...
Scientists are uniting in the war against drug-defying superbugs by setting up a multi-disciplinary centre dedicated to the fight. Concern is mounting worldwide over the resurgence of diseases like...
Jailed mothers and their children face a rigid "culture of scorn" in women's prisons in both Britain and Australia, according to research. This attitude meant few concessions were made for the...
LATE last month, the University of California at Davis, a 24,000-student campus which made its name fostering the California wine industry, got an unusual offer. The president of the Association of...