Bright boys dumb down to avoid bullying in schools, according to new research. Becky Francis, professor of education at Roehampton University, found that clever boys were more likely to be branded a...
Undergraduates at a London university will be offered a £1,000 discount on tuition fees if they stay on to study a taught masters. University College London said the measure was the first in a series...
A part-time academic has lost a claim for unfair dismissal against Henley Management College, which is now part of the University of Reading. Ian Chaston, a professor of marketing at the University...
A £3.5 million centre for food manufacturing has opened at the University of Lincoln's Holbeach campus. The centre will provide a "training factory" for people in the food industry, with research...
A £30 million grant will pay for a new centre for materials chemistry split between the universities of Liverpool, Bolton and Manchester as well as the Daresbury Laboratory. The centre will support...
The Open University played host to a debate about the huge sums spent on the fight against Aids and other killer conditions in developing countries. Discussion at the two-day meeting in Milton Keynes...
A robot scientist created at Aberystwyth University and the University of Cambridge may be the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge. The robot, which is called Adam...
The possibility that breast-feeding can prevent post-natal depression is being explored by researchers at the University of Essex. The £240,000 project, funded by the Economic and Social Research...
Rare poisonous mammals could be saved from extinction by researchers at the University of Bath. Scientists are working with the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust to study the Hispaniolan solenodon...
A university has won accreditation from one of the world's top technology companies that will, it claims, give its students a jump-start in the creative industries. Anglia Ruskin University has been...
Listening to music by heavy metal bands such as Motorhead might not sound like the best way to relieve a headache. But a researcher at Glasgow Caledonian University has found that listening to...
The popular belief that dog owners look like their pets may be correct, suggest the results of a study at Bath Spa University. Researchers from the psychology department asked people to match photos...
AustraliaHigh-risk projects 'need support'A Nobel laureate in medicine has warned that scientific research in Australia is being hamstrung by a systemic failure to support high-risk projects and...
Critics fear that giving teachers cash based on class satisfaction will damage standards. Jon Marcus reports
Millions are on offer for cross-subject complex-systems approaches to tackle urgent concerns. Neha Popat reports