The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) is to give £6.9 million to the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) for the coming academic year. With campuses in Aberdeen, Ayr and Edinburgh, the SAC was, until...
An international conference celebrating the cult author W. G. Sebald - a memorial that the man himself "would have hated", according to the event's organiser, Amanda Hopkinson - will be hosted by the...
Research degree-awarding powers have been granted to Edge Hill University. It will now be able to offer and award its own MPhil and PhD degrees, just two years after it gained university status. "...
Robert Tuttle, the US ambassador to the UK, has opened a new £8 million home for experts in international security, terrorism and peace studies at the University of St Andrews. The new building...
A new department of psychology, offering seven joint honours degree schemes from September, has opened at Aberystwyth University. The courses range from psychology and international politics to...
A degree programme in community TV and radio has become the first of its kind to win accreditation from the Broadcast Journalism Training Council. City University's foundation degree in creative...
A psychology lecturer has defended the low age restrictions of the latest Batman film, The Dark Knight. Simon Moore, who researches violence in films at London Metropolitan University, said few...
Engineers are developing "Velcro" car parts to make recycling and disposal easier. The new material, which can be used for bumpers and wing mirrors, has received £60,000 for additional research and...
Research led by Elliot Freeman, lecturer in psychology at Brunel University's School of Social Sciences, has confirmed that what we see can sometimes depend as much on our ears as on our eyes. The...
Backlash looms as critics decry lack of checks on soaring cost of higher education, writes Jon Marcus
International scholars take Australian Government to task over assessment plan, reports Zoe CorbynThe Australian Government's move to create a ranking of academic journals in order to assess the...
AustraliaPlans for better fundraising driveAustralia's top universities are to adopt uniform reporting standards on philanthropic gifts by the end of the year as part of a drive to improve their...
John Gill meets the man who pledges to restore intellectual freedom to US university campuses
The dilution of PhD standards damages the status of every aspect of UK academe, claims Kevin Sharpe
Pictures of smiling girls clutching A grades belie the fact that they are still unrepresented in elite institutions, claims Miriam David