Campus round-up

Hopes that coordination across universities and better career paths can renew technician workforce

Partnership of five universities has so far helped new businesses raise more than £1bn

Drew Mulholland explains how his unique role at the University of Glasgow is at the heart of cross-disciplinary conversations

International Policing and Justice Institute integrates practical police training into an academic context

Farm bassist and lecturer Carl Hunter says The Label Recordings uncovers ‘exciting music’ and is ‘bespoke work placement’ for students

Institution’s US Centre seeks to promote multidisciplinary and international research on American policy

New research initiative is thought to be the first of its kind in the UK, if not the world

Sheffield Engineering Leadership Academy aims to equip graduates with the ‘soft skills’ required for industry or academia

Cornish university offers an exceptionally realistic training environment for those wanting to work in the games industry

Preparing to launch its multidisciplinary degree, institution bids others across Europe to follow suit

Tim Blackman is keen to build on successes achieved in his predecessor’s two decades in charge

New vice-chancellor Hugh Brady hopes innovation programmes will spur graduates to become social and business entrepreneurs

University of East Anglia centre hosts two master’s courses in space with writable walls and adaptable furniture

Institution’s School of Media, Arts and Design is 25 this year. Its current dean takes Times Higher Education through the reasons behind its success

Acting director of new research centre set up with Lego Foundation money says aim will be to explore whether there really is evidence that play enhances education

High-profile visiting professors at King’s Policy Institute include Margaret Hodge, David Willetts and Charles Clarke

The new-look IMR aims to support and showcase studies across the musical spectrum

Partnership with Cornwall College Group will see tourist attraction open its doors to undergraduates

Major/minor course designed to improve graduates’ employment prospects

University shows its new ‘fusion’ collection at this year’s Ceramics Biennial

Sir Adrian Smith on what he feels is the institution’s undeserved reputation for fustiness

Part of the founding vice-chancellor’s vision lives on at the University of Essex

University of South Wales offers academic credit for skills and experience gained in the military

Industry-focused offshoot with Jaguar Land Rover link offers teaching from school to manager level

Lecturer who masterminded student-run commercial operation Re:So shortlisted for enterprise education award

Course looking at ‘key security issue for East Asia’ part of major University of Central Lancashire investment in Korean studies

The University of Surrey’s centre for testing the next generation of mobile technology has seen significant buy-in from industry

Making radios in London Met’s masterclasses gets children on the university wavelength

Troops to Teachers programme allows veterans to turn swords into whiteboards

The silver lining in the fire that ravaged an Art Nouveau gem is the chance to explore Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s methods

UCL-led centre aims to clarify complexity – and dispel a few myths, too

For a small, specialist institution, Writtle College has sizeable ambitions

Scottish institution strengthens its identity as a centre for singing and languages with pioneering new course

With a focus on raising students’ expectations, Kingston University aims to close the BME attainment gap

A research network that links schools with higher education institutions is demonstrating the positive impact the sector can have on teaching

Queen’s University Belfast and US counterpart compare and contrast domestic civil rights struggles

A scholar’s project on Lewis Carroll’s heroine helps an institution boost its links with the capital’s museums

The marks of private provider’s first cohort of graduates make Anthony Grayling feel more vindicated than ever

Nearing its half-century, the Science Policy Research Unit’s bold bid to find ‘radical solutions’ to global problems will cast the expertise net wide

A Scottish institution aims to tackle obesity with products developed in a new food innovation centre

A new doctoral centre will examine Magna Carta’s influence in the digital age

Campus gallery to act as a gateway in £28m refurbishment of Philip Larkin’s library

Demand for places is justifiably high because graduates make it on the big stage

An interdisciplinary centre at Manchester Metropolitan University builds its research around listening to the next generation

Mooted Hereford university benefits from serious backing

Students at a new doctoral training centre will use big data to tackle challenges such as extreme weather and population growth

Work experience while at this Scottish institution is positively encouraged

The John Rylands Research Institute pairs collections and curators with scholars and scientists

CoLab project is putting a new twist on art forms

Kevin Spacey to play a key cameo in new home for fashion, fine art, film and theatre students

An estate master plan will help the institution equip students for the 21st century, v-c Steve West says

Local residents won’t be forgotten amid expansion to boost student experience and strategic research areas, says Anton Muscatelli

The UK synchrotron seeks more university groups to set up second homes at the site to create a genuine research campus

Aston business school dean prizes feedback from alumni and employers as institutions begin to work like corporations

Edinburgh University and Heriot-Watt have teamed up to boost UK development in robotic applications

New hilltop facility’s made-to-measure features aim to help biological research achieve liftoff

Florey Institute for Host-Pathogen Interactions and Imagine: Imaging Life project combine forces to tackle deadly bacteria

Provision of initial teacher training faces a huge upheaval but there is also scope for new networks and partnerships

A planned Cardiff Innovation System built on regenerated Cathays site will bring ideas together to create, innovate and translate

A London club’s Middlesex University-accredited two-year degrees promise a pitch-perfect environment to study football