Tigray turns to Bangor
Preventing famine in northern Ethiopia is the aim of a Pounds 190,000 World Bank-funded partnership programme between Bangor University and Tigray's Mekelle College. The three-year-old college is...
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Russian voters revealed
Researchers at Keele and Glasgow universities are to prise open one of Russia's deepest secrets - how its people vote. Matthew Wyman of Keele's politics department is being funded with Pounds 52,000...
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Motor sets satellites on cheap orbit
A rocket motor being developed by researchers at Surrey University looks set to help slash the cost of moving small satellites from one orbit to another. The 350N "hybrid" motor has already been...
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Warwick team rescues mosaics
Warwick University archaeologists are leading the delicate operation to rescue two ancient and beautiful Byzantine mosaics discovered slowly falling into the sea on Turkey's Black Sea coast. The 1,...
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Minorities locked out
Local authorities and housing associations have largely failed to address the housing needs of black and other ethnic minority elderly people, according to University of Warwick research. The report...
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Riddle of the missing Asians in UK professional football
A research centre devoted to the study of soccer is investigating one of the great anomalies of the British game - why there are no Asian players in the professional league. "Either Asians are not...
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Contract staff win appeal on status
The Association of University Teachers is claiming an Employment Appeal Tribunal decision as an important victory in its campaign to improve the status of thousands of contract staff. Glasgow...
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Folk fight to fill the house
Earlier this year a party planned to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Bristol Folk House looked like turning into a wake. But thanks to a number of donations, the party is still on. In October...
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Cash for Irish sensors
The International Fund for Ireland is to back a major project linking Ulster's two universities and two in the Irish Republic. The Biomedical and Environmental Sensor Technology (BEST) Centre is...
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Welsh farmers gain an institute
The Welsh Institute of Rural Studies was established at Aberystwyth last week when the university's department of agriculture merged with the Welsh Agricultural College. Michael Haines, institute...
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Glaxo turns to Cambridge in hunt for drugs
"It all came about as a result of Roger and me talking over a quiet gin and tonic one evening, chatting about the world, the universe, and chemistry." That is how Steven Ley, British Petroleum...
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Awards for students plummet
More than Pounds 35 million has been cut from student discretionary awards by county councils in England and Wales in just two years. The reduction, revealed in a THES survey, means nearly a third...
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Plan to scrap national pay deals
University unions have reacted angrily to proposals to scrap annual pay increments and establish a single pay structure for all staff, from porters to professors. The suggestions form part of...
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Carnage blamed on old buildings
European earthquake experts sent to Kobe, Japan, to carry out a detailed study of how, why and which buildings failed during January's earthquake say research on strengthening old buildings should be...
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Welsh adopt credit funding
Higher education funding in Wales is to be linked to a new credit framework for courses. The Higher Education Credit Initiative, launched by the Welsh HE CATS Forum, involves all Welsh universities...