The largest study of UK surnames is to be led by the University of the West of England. The project will create a database containing the meanings and origins of up to 150,000 surnames, which will be...
Electric and ultra-low-emission vehicles are being trialled by engineers at the University of Birmingham. Kevin Kendall and Waldemar Bujalski, experts in future fuels and hydrogen fuel cells in the...
Foster carers are being helped to study degree-level programmes under a new scheme. The partnership between the Fostering Network and The Open University will see the provision of a range of courses...
Nearly £200,000 has been awarded by Natural England, an independent public body designed to protect and improve England's natural environment, to the University of Leeds for a project to introduce...
A centre to improve wind power technology has opened at the University of Sheffield. The Sheffield-Siemens Wind Power Research Centre (SWP) will focus on developing the most reliable and efficient...
The use of origami - the ancient art of paper folding - to improve health and safety in the handling of hazardous chemicals has been pioneered by a scientist at Nottingham Trent University. Laura...
Louisiana is the happiest state in America and New York is the unhappiest, University of Warwick research has found. The study by Andrew Oswald, professor of economics, and Stephen Wu, associate...
United StatesPlans for tuition tax droppedPlans to charge students in Pittsburgh a tuition tax to fund pensions for retired city employees have been dropped after universities stepped in.Mayor Luke...
Students protest against the 'marketisation' of higher education. John Morgan reportsA wave of student protests across Austria and Germany is voicing opposition to tuition fees and "English-American...
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILThe ESRC's Professorial Fellowship scheme is funding five of the UK's top social scientists to allow them to develop their research agendas.Award winner: M....
Glamorgan's incoming vice-chancellor Julie Lydon has never let her gender get in the way of career advancement
A professor of education has been appointed the next vice-chancellor of Keele University. Nick Foskett, currently dean of the faculty of law, arts and social sciences at the University of Southampton...
Reproductive technologies offer older women more choice, but who gains the most benefit, asks Rachel Bowlby
Financial discrimination against part-time students must end even if we can't say how it will affect gender imbalance, argues Tom Schuller
Sentence creation toy is 'warning' against obscurantist academic speak. John Morgan writes