Mighty wind
Clare Wood and Ben Evans, research officers at the Civil and Computational Engineering Research Centre at Swansea University, experience the power of an industrial wind tunnel, used to test a...
Clare Wood and Ben Evans, research officers at the Civil and Computational Engineering Research Centre at Swansea University, experience the power of an industrial wind tunnel, used to test a...
AustraliaPut a stop to 'exploitation'Private education provision should be overseen by an independent national regulator to put a stop to the "exploitation" of foreign students, critics in Australia...
Rositsa Bateson has been named pro vice-chancellor (recruitment and student experience) at the University of Abertay Dundee. Dr Bateson, who is currently vice-president of student services at the...
The University of Edinburgh's Waddington Building, which officially opened last week to house its Centre for Systems Biology, offers a flexible environment for experimental and theoretical...
Wasafiri, a magazine that opened up literary studies to fresh voices, is 25. Matthew Reisz reports
The college at the centre of an escalating row over plans to close its Centre for New Zealand Studies (CNZS) has pledged to continue supporting its work in some form - but stopped short of reversing...
Work starts this week on the construction of a ?1.3 million extension to the department of sport and exercise science at Aberystwyth University. The project will add eight teaching and research...
Computer-game technology is being used to help local authorities find and develop sites for gypsy and traveller communities. The University of Salford's Virtual Environments Technology Solutions and...
Cannabis may help to prevent the breakdown of bones, scientists at the University of Aberdeen have found. The researchers have discovered a constituent in the drug that can block the protein that...
Farm visits are dispelling children's ignorance about where food comes from, according to new research by Kingston University. Agricultural trips, set up as part of the Government's Educational...
A merger has been agreed between the University of Bradford and Leeds College of Music to help both institutions improve their music provision. A detailed merger proposal is being drawn up and will...
Maggots are the toast of the art world, thanks to the University of Manchester. Fruit fly larvae were the stars of Pestival - a festival celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect -...
OECD findings pose major political questions for higher education across the globe, writes Phil Baty
Lesley Harbidge argues that comedy is a legitimate discipline that shouldn't be dismissed just because it is enjoyable
The head of the Student Loans Company has been forced to apologise amid anger over delays that have left tens of thousands of students without loans. Up to 170,000 students are reported to be...