Universities are failing to help new students bridge the gap between their A-level study habits and the academic demands of a degree course, administrators were told this week. Concerns have been...
The Training and Development Agency for Schools has awarded ?1.5 million - 88 per cent of the allocation available - to Edge Hill University for professional development in a bid to raise the quality...
A researcher at Bradford University has been awarded a grant to find a way of flushing cancerous tumours out of the body with no harmful side-effects. Klaus Pors has been awarded ?96,474 by Yorkshire...
Scandinavia is not as tolerant of queer studies as UK academics might believe, according to participants at a recent University College London debate. While Sweden has thriving queer and gender...
Students at Warwick University have developed a racing car that you can grow. Not only does Eco One run on biofuels but its shell is made from hemp, the tyres from potatoes and the brake pads from...
Fashion trends come and go at a predictable rate, according to research by Durham University academics. The study found that lists of new things such as baby names change steadily, with a small...
Unhygienic circumcision procedures are a cause of HIV infection among African adolescents, according to research by Stuart Brody, professor of psychology at Paisley University.
Julia Goodfellow, the chief executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of Kent University. She will take up her...
The next steps towards a European higher education area present serious challenges. Anthea Lipsett reports. When London hosts the 2007 Bologna summit next month it should help bring the vision of a...
Louis de Bernieres, Iain Banks, David Lodge, Lionel Shriver and Deborah Moggach are five of the top literary names on the bill at Aberdeen University's Word Festival on May 11-13. They will be joined...
Former Iraq weapons inspector Hans Blix is due to receive an honorary doctor of law from Cambridge University in June. The university will also award honorary degrees to Baroness O'Neill, philosopher...
Paul Fearnhead of the department of mathematics and statistics at Lancaster University has won this year's Adams Prize. It is awarded by Cambridge University's faculty of mathematics and St John's...
Gemma Tumelty has been re-elected president of the National Union of Students. She won the votes of more than two thirds of delegates at last week's NUS annual conference in Blackpool. She will serve...
Glam rock as a module option? Marc Bolan as a research topic? Unlikely as it sounds, visiting professor Philip Auslander is about to share his expert knowledge of the 1970s popular music scene with...
Peter Warry, former chairman of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, is to be chairman of the new Science and Technology Facilities Council that launched on April 1. The STFC brings...