A robotics expert has warned that robot weapons being developed by superpowers pose a threat to humanity. In a keynote address to the Royal United Services Institute last week, Noel Sharkey,...
A £15 million Sports Technology Institute has been launched at Loughborough University. The institute, which is funded with the East Midlands Development Agency, will develop technology to assist the...
A £25 million Centre for Nuclear Energy Technology (C-NET) is to be established at the University of Manchester to supply graduates to support the nuclear industry and undertake independent academic...
A new degree that focuses on the changing nature of the fashion and retail business has been launched. London Metropolitan University will begin a bachelors degree in fashion marketing in September...
Durham University and the Roman Catholic Church are launching the first Centre for Catholic Studies at a secular university in the UK. The Durham Centre for Catholic Studies will also be home to the...
Coral reef fish use their acute sense of hearing to eavesdrop on several different locations before deciding where to set up home, research led by the University of Edinburgh has shown. Scientists...
The University of Leeds' revamped art gallery reopened last week with a new name - the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery.The gallery has been refurbished and expanded to include new education and...
Higher education review to take the long view to ensure sector keeps pole position, says John Gill
AUSTRALIARECRUITMENT LIMITS MOOTEDWeak departments at Australian universities may be barred from signing up research students under new proposals. A higher education sector working party, involving...
Faculty raise concerns about limits on academic freedom and 'selling prestige'. John Gill reportsThree US universities have signed deals to help a new Saudi Arabian institution design a curriculum...
Public-private initiatives with billions of euros in funding are set to issue first calls for proposals. Zoe Corbyn reports
Arts and Humanities Research CouncilThis round of research grants has been awarded to support high-quality research whose speculative or exploratory nature means that results are uncertain and...
INNOVATION, UNIVERSITIES, SKILLS COMMITTEEMPS SOLICIT VIEWS ON LEITCH REPORTAn inquiry has been launched into the Government's agenda to boost the nation's skills. A committee of MPs will examine...
Queen's University Belfast refused to fly its flag at half-mast this week to mark the funeral of Mairead Farrell, the IRA member and first-year politics student shot dead in Gibraltar by the SAS. Its...
Entry qualification debate rumbles on as minister vaunts new diplomas. Melanie Newman reports