Articles about 'Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)'

Cambridge in the 2019 New Year honours list

28 December 2018

Members of collegiate Cambridge recognised for outstanding contributions to society in science, education, engineering and art

Canola crop with wheat crop in background at Wallandbeen, NSW.

Major funding for new crop sciences research centre that will be ‘centrepiece’ of industrial collaboration

10 July 2017

Over £30m has been announced for a new Cambridge Centre for Crop Science that will focus on linking with farming and food industries to translate research into real world impact.

Ten thousand reasons to celebrate Open Access at Cambridge

03 October 2016

The University of Cambridge has received its 10,000th Open Access submission – highlighting its commitment to making research freely available to anybody who wants to access it, without publisher paywalls or expensive journal subscriptions.

Dementia: Catching the memory thief

21 September 2016

It's over a hundred years since the first case of Alzheimer’s disease was diagnosed. Since then we’ve learned a great deal about the protein ‘tangles’ and ‘plaques’ that cause the disease. How close are we to having effective treatments – and could we even prevent dementia from occurring in the first place?

Cambridge's Chemistry of Health programme awarded £17 million in funding

25 March 2015

New funding will support fundamental research into the molecular processes underlying human disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, and enable new ways to combat them.

Inspired by nature

24 October 2013

To maximise the efficiency of solar cells of the future, physicists are taking a leaf out of nature’s book.

Architect’s impression of the new Maxwell Centre for physical science research, due to open in summer 2015.

New Centre will bring together frontier physics research and the needs of industry

06 June 2013

A centrepiece building for exploratory ‘blue skies’ research and industrial partnerships in the physical sciences will be created at the University of Cambridge to investigate new approaches to fundamental science and to solving global challenges, such as natural resource demand.

Reading closely: Faculty of English

01 May 2010

Close scrutiny of text is the bedrock of a research culture that spans practically the whole range of contemporary English studies.

Widening participation in higher education

01 September 2008

New research could help improve the learning experience of students from backgrounds where there is little tradition of higher education.

Dr Carenza Lewis

01 September 2007

A passion for communicating the thrill of the dig and for uncovering evidence of lives long gone is what inspires archaeologist Dr Carenza Lewis. Her latest endeavour is to raise educational aspirations among schoolchildren through involvement in excavation - a venture that is unearthing new information on rural medieval settlements.