A computer system that can detect guilt is being developed by a team at the universities of Bradford and Aberystwyth. The research is part of a £500,000 project to develop technologies to aid border-...
An unusual material hailed as an "invisibility cloak" when it was invented may help to improve sea defences, researchers believe. Mathematicians at the University of Liverpool are testing...
A study of fridges belonging to first-year undergraduates suggests that food safety is not a priority among new students. The study by Bournemouth University found evidence of over-packing in 92 per...
IndiaInnovation is key, summit told"Innovate or perish" was the tough message to higher education institutions at a summit held in Bangalore recently. R. Natarajan, former chairman of the All India...
Neither McCain or Obama can afford to ignore the concern about university costs, says Jon Marcus
Former NUS president Gemma Tumelty remains focused on modern universities with a public affairs role at Million+
A former adviser to the World Health Organisation, Don Nutbeam, has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton. Currently academic provost at the University of Sydney, he will...
An Anglican academic is urging the party to discard the Thatcher legacy, writes Melanie Newman
World University Rankings 2008: find out who are the world's top 200.
Scottish Supa alliance aims to bring new breadth to postgraduate research. Olga Wojtas reports
The broadly positive findings of a review of physics in the UK have been welcomed by the sector, along with its warnings about low interest among schoolchildren.The "Review of UK Physics", which was...
Industry must raise its game to outdo fee-paying generation in financial clout, writes John Gill
Proposals risk compromising academic freedom, institutions tell task force. Olga Wojtas reports
New College, Oxford, may now be home to that pugnacious atheist Richard Dawkins, but it was founded by the Bishop of Winchester, William of Wykeham, in 1379 specifically to offer up prayers for his...
Open University assignment based on plagiarised paper, says MSc student. Melanie Newman reports