Scottish politicians are adding their weight to protests from the ancient Scottish universities over proposals to axe their distinctive MA title for undergraduate degrees, writes Olga Wojtas. The QAA...
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David Fussey, vice-chancellor of the University of Greenwich for more than six years, is to retire early, because of ill-health. He will leave the university at the end of next July. A new...
Performance poet Benjamin Zephaniah is to receive the honorary degree of doctor of letters from the University of the West of England. UWE has also appointed Jennifer Bone, vice-chair of the Society...
British astronomers have won approval to build and launch a spacecraft to study mysterious, violent bursts of gamma rays. Last week Nasa selected the spacecraft, called Swift, as one of its key space...
A survey from the 1930s could reveal important links between diet and disease, says Steve Farrar The cardboard boxes, crammed with yellowing papers, looked anything but precious. Yet when the Bristol...
An "intelligent" car with a "virtual" dashboard that obeys the driver's commands by responding to hand gestures? That'll be the Daewoo, as the Korean car-maker's advertisements like to say. But...
People with severe disabilities may soon be able to "train" computers to interpret their individual gestures. Stephen McKenna and Ian Ricketts of Dundee University's department of applied computing...
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have drawn the first comprehensive maps of the distribution of more than 3,900 species of birds, mammals, snakes and amphibians in sub-Saharan Africa. The...
A Danish satellite launched in February has produced the first accurate map of the Earth's magnetic field for 20 years. The satellite - which is named after Hans Christian Orsted (1777-1851), a...
Apparitions exist, there is no question in my mind that the phenomena described as apparitions are real. But what are they? For more than a century, the Society for Psychical Research has collected...
Two students were killed and others wounded when armed police opened fire on protesters marching on the palace of president Lansana Konte of Guinea to protest at the doubling of petroleum product...
A team of six scholars - three Catholics and three Jews - are to have access to Vatican second world war archives to study the role of Pope Pius XII during the Nazi persecution of the Jews. The six...
(Photograph) - Attacked by a cream cake in Brussels and now snubbed by Canadian students, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates accepts the public pain of high office with good grace
The University of the West of England and other Bristol organisations have opened a centre where staff from local businesses can learn multimedia technologies. The multimedia centre at the Rackhay is...