A mentoring scheme aimed at sharpening graduates' competitive edge in the job market will support students at Edinburgh Napier University, thanks to a £260,000 grant from the Big Lottery Fund. The...
A total of 65 postgraduate bursaries are to be offered by the University of Teesside after it received one year of funding from regional development agency One NorthEast to help attract and retain...
Coventry University has said it wants to become the UK's first "international" university after announcing the creation of a team that will give students increased opportunities to study worldwide....
Black helium balloons, staple-less staplers and wind-up mobile phone chargers met staff at the University of Central Lancashire when they turned up for work earlier this month. The props were left at...
The University of Salford will host a conference on data mining, the controversial online monitoring technique. The UK Symposium on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2009, to be held at the Lowry,...
A five-year programme of postgraduate expansion is being launched by Bangor University, with £5 million to be invested in up to 125 research studentships and related bursaries. Merfyn Jones, vice-...
Academics at Swansea Metropolitan University are developing the world's first underwater system for monitoring coastal erosion. Until now, the data used to understand this phenomenon have largely...
The lifetime of a pair of flip-flops was the subject of a study by a professor of sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Caroline Knowles held an exhibition at the university detailing the...
MIT's tech-transfer expert tells UK not to abandon blue skies and students. Hannah Fearn reports
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILThe AHRC research grants schemes are intended to support well-defined research projects to enable individuals to collaborate with, and bring benefits to, other...
Tony Owen is to lead University College London's first outpost Down Under - an institution that might help save our world
The London School of Economics has appointed Thandika Mkandawire to a new chair in African development. Professor Mkandawire is currently director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social...
Reluctance to engage with Government's practical agenda could prove costly. John Gill reports
The absurdities of the jargon and "management-speak" in higher education were exposed in a light-hearted session at the Association of University Administrators (AUA) annual conference.Words such as...
Senior official rejects claim that RAE successor's use of metrics will benefit elite, writes John Gill