Australian academics have stepped up their campaign over the increasing employment of casual staff. Less than 60 per cent of academic staff are in tenured positions, down from more than 80 per cent...
A mission to probe life at the bottom of the Bay of Biscay starts soon with a grant of more than Ecu4 million (Pounds 3.3 million)from the European Union. The work follows dramatic discoveries over...
Rami Abboud finds the latest fashions in ladies' footwear "horrible". But his concern is clinical rather than aesthetic: he is a biomedical and rehabilitation engineer at Dundee University, and...
Researchers from Lancaster University are investigating new trends in migration suggesting that divorce rather than jobs is setting the pattern in 1990s Britain. People in Lancashire and Yorkshire...
Top business executives will be able to "experiment" with the future with the help of computer-aided systems being developed by researchers at Plymouth University. The university's business school...
Pioneering work at Cambridge University on catalysts, which could make cheaper catalytic converters for cleaning up car exhaust, has been rewarded with a Pounds 2 million grant this week. The use of...
(Photograph) - All aboard: Lisa Clayton, the first woman to sail single-handed and unaided round the world, was awarded an honorary degree of doctor of science by the University of Birmingham earlier...
Alan Wilson, vice chancellor of Leeds University, is to chair the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals group on university finances, resources and management. The group is one of nine created...
Huw Richards, in the last of our series on the Research Assessment Exercise, looks at its impact on teaching Unholy alliance. Gruesome twosome. Call them what you like - and academics are an...
Graduate recruiters need to rethink their recruitment strategy if they are going to compete with the financial houses which can offer ever bigger pay packets and perks, according to international...
Sheffield University's enterprise initiative has gained a reputation as one of the country's most successful. English graduate Andrea Farley confirms the rumour. "This one project coloured my whole...
When captains of industry stand up to speak about higher education, what are they most likely to say? The answer, if the speeches of the past decade are anything to go by, is that they will claim...
Staff at Middlesex University are being encouraged to get on their bikes. The university believes it is the first in the country to introduce mileage for those using bicycles on university business....
Humour guru Joel Goodman had some prejudices to overcome when he addressed an audience at Leeds Metropolitan University recently on "The Positive Power of Humour". For the notoriously robust British...
Scottish higher education is poised to set up one of Europe's most advanced information technology networks, with a Pounds 5 million boost from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. SHEFC...