Three billion Asians face an impending food crisis, according to research carried out by the University of Manchester. Academics say the escalating cost of rice across Asia is slowing economic growth...
Businesses' survival may depend on their readiness to deal with terrorist or extremist activity, ranging from bomb threats and chemical or biological contamination to vandalism. The Robert Gordon...
One of the special effects in the latest James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, a huge illuminated cube that pulsates to Latin rhythms at a party thrown by the film's villain, was designed and operated...
Fiction was due to turn into poetic fact in Edinburgh this week with Edward Mendelson, professor of humanities at Columbia University in New York, set to recreate a lecture about the poet W.H. Auden...
But university rejects accusations that it has not honoured donors' wishes. John Gill reports
Admissions proceduresLanguage rules may discriminateCertain university admissions procedures may breach equality legislation, the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) has warned. Some universities have a...
Money saved could go to help poor Scottish students fund masters study. Olga Wojtas reports
Treasury pressure to minimise further growth in higher education and tailor it closely to national manpower needs is revealed in this week's leaked papers to a summer think-tank attended by education...
Olga Wojtas meets an environmental psychologist studying architecture's impact on academic life
Many years ago, Frank Burnet fought for modularisation and credit transfer. The war was won, but victory was pyrrhic
John Widdowson says universities and colleges should focus on the positives aspects of changes to foundation degree-awarding powers
Vocational university envisaged as a way to meet expansion targets. Melanie Newman reports
Web of Science's owner defends procedures after academic complains of errors, Zoe Corbyn writes
"He surfs, wears a pink hoodie and worships Arsenal," making him "the world's least likely maths professor", said The Guardian. Marcus du Sautoy is to succeed Richard Dawkins as the Simonyi professor...
Personal relationships lost in modern university 'maelstrom', v-c warns. Rebecca Attwood reports