The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors is funding an investigation of how surveying and built-environment education should adapt to meet the needs of industry over the next two decades. The £30,...
The Met Office has released early global temperature figures, in partnership with the University of East Anglia, showing that 2008 was the tenth warmest year since records began in 1850. The...
Students with a strong interest in current affairs are much more likely to plan to go to university than those who are not engaged with the news, research suggests.Researchers measured the "cultural...
Universities all over the country are upping their efforts to get schoolchildren on campus, but a science centre at Queen Mary, University of London is hoping to raise the bar substantially when it...
DIUS funding£158m retraining allocationsThe Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) has released details of how it will allocate a £158 million fund to help train people who are...
Fears of a price war are mounting following the freeing of universities to set their own overseas student fees from next year. And there are predictions that the ending of the informal cartel using...
Professional body's report is a 'wake-up call' for European business schools, writes Hannah Fearn
Vietnam$400m plan to climb rankingsIn a bid to climb the world university rankings, the Vietnamese Government has agreed in principle to spend $400 million (£268 million) on four new universities....
Australian plan would see cash follow learners in a bid to boost participation, writes John Gill
What were the high points of 2008 for academic leaders and politicians? Inventive use of courgettes, 'coming out' as a Brummie and Robert Plant were among the more unusual. But Obamamania, career...
What do key players in higher education predict for the coming months? Most find cause for optimism amid the gloom
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILThe EPSRC has announced more than £21 million in funding under its "Challenging Engineering" initiative, which aims to encourage engineering...
Drawing on four decades in computing, Sir Timothy O'Shea is intent on ensuring that Jisc keeps serving the whole sector
A professor of international law at the University of Leeds has been appointed to a key nature-conservation post in his native Nepal. Surya Subedi has been named a governor of the National Trust for...
A Sheffield professor's fairground past helps her draw crowds to her research, writes Olga Wojtas