Four postgraduate scholarships, worth £1,000 each, have been launched by Harper Adams University College. They are open to graduates hoping to study estate and land management, farm and agri-business...
A conference held entirely in the virtual world of Second Life will look at issues including teaching and learning in the computer age. An Open University expert on education in Second Life, Anna...
The role Penguin paperbacks played in revolutionising publishing is the subject of research to mark 75 years since the first books in the format were released. Nicola Wilson, a postdoctoral research...
Welsh-speaking academics have developed a new application to help people learn the language while on the move. An app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch designed by computer scientists Chris Price...
The first students to graduate from a UK university's joint-venture campus in China have picked up their degrees. A ceremony was held in China for graduates of Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University,...
More than 100 nurses have been interviewed for a book on the history of modern nursing. Nurses' Voices is an oral history of the profession, based on 1,000 hours of recorded interviews with nurses...
Secrets from the 13th century have been revealed at an archaeological dig on a site owned by a university. The landowner Fulk de Breaute built a settlement nearly 800 years ago on land that is now...
A group of leading Edinburgh business figures have donated nearly £1 million to fund the development of a new campus. Edinburgh Napier University's Sighthill campus, to be opened later this year, has...
Academics at the University of Nottingham's School of Politics and International Relations are being challenged to sum up their expertise on subjects such as war, disaster politics and UK-US...
A design school has been created by the amalgamation of Loughborough University's departments of ergonomics and design and technology with its Ergonomics Safety Research Institute. From August 2011,...
A university has been named one of the UK's five most creative and innovative businesses operating in China. Sheffield Hallam University received the accolade at the British Business Awards 2010,...
One of the UK's five National Research Libraries is to undergo a multimillion-pound refurbishment project. The library at the School of Oriental and African Studies holds unique collections on Africa...
The traditional "Brits-abroad" approach to tanning, which tends to leave holidaymakers lobster-red, is a key risk factor for skin cancer. Researchers at the University of Leeds studied the genetic...
Many ideas floated by government are already in place, says v-c of Bucks New. Simon Baker writes
These three Aztec-style sculptures stand guard in the inner square of what was once Salford Technical College and is now part of the University of Salford.When the building, which is now the Faculty...