Staff at the University of Central Lancashire have delivered a damning indictment of the quality of their own students in a no-holds-barred internal discussion leaked to The Times Higher , writes...
A lecturer forbidden from marking students down for not showing sufficient evidence of research is calling on academics to be more stringent when marking. Leo Enticknap warned first-year media...
Stuart Blackman reports on dissent over academic support for pressure group Many people will not think twice about applying the descriptions "native", "indigenous" or "tribal" to certain groups of...
The UK's continued success in attracting students from overseas this week prompted warnings from two leading higher education opinion formers. The number of students from outside Europe enrolling in...
Researchers at Warwick University have been awarded more than £5 million from the National Health Service for clinical trials in cancer and emergency care. The Warwick Medical School Clinical Trials...
Researchers at the Open University's Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research have won two of three Aurora Fellowships sponsored by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research...
Scientists at Aberdeen University have won £2.5 million to create a scanner with the potential to revolutionise magnetic resonance imaging, some 25 years after the university became the first to scan...
Kent University's Functional Materials Group has received £266,000 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to develop new forms of "bioactive glass" that can be used to promote...
Swansea University has won two grants worth more than £60,000 from Diabetes UK and the Welsh Assembly's Office for Research and Development for Health and Social Care to investigate the effects of...
Cranfield University has received £50,000 from international aerospace giant Lockheed Martin for research into new armour to protect troops and vehicles from the type of explosives used in Iraq and...
Last week we reported that a new sports science building had opened at Plymouth University. The Spinnaker Building is, in fact, at Portsmouth University.
Celebrity pop stars such as Bob Geldof and U2's Bono are being increasingly accepted as world authorities on complex causes such as debt relief in Africa and accorded the respect of international...
Barn owls could become a familiar sight once again in the UK with the help of experts at York University. Research led by Nick Askew in the university's department of biology, and supported by the...
Britons have only modest and realistic aspirations, according to the first UK-based comprehensive research into dreams. The National Lottery Dream Study, conducted by Don Slater at the London School...
Tiny mites fossilised in mud at the bottom of a sacred Peruvian lake have helped to develop our understanding of the rise and fall of the ancient Inca empire. The numbers of mites found in mud cores...