Books on topics ranging from human rights to memoirs are to be published by a new commercial publishing arm launched by Kingston University. Kingston University Press will aim to publish mainstream...
Cheating athletes are to be targeted by an anti-doping laboratory run by King's College London during the Olympic Games in 2012. King's has joined forces with GlaxoSmithKline to enable the university...
Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, has been voted the worst former student of the University of Cambridge in a poll by a student newspaper. The right-wing MEP topped the survey...
A new foundation degree has been launched to enable welders to gain a higher education qualification and enhance their career prospects. The Open University and The Welding Institute degree scheme...
Tests on human brain tissue removed from people with epilepsy have raised hopes of new treatments for sufferers of the condition. Scientists at Newcastle University have recorded spontaneous...
A new Centre for Peace History has opened at the University of Sheffield. It will bring together interdisciplinary expertise on peace and conflict resolution. Holger Nehring, one of its directors and...
Governors at the University of Strathclyde have approved a £350 million redevelopment plan for the provision of new campus facilities over the next 15 years. The proposed development includes four "...
A team of engineers from the University of Bath has received the BP Helios Progressive Award for a collaborative project to improve the efficiency of diesel cars. The team, which also included...
Researchers from two universities are to work together on a project that aims to transform the way society views older women. The team from the universities of Derby and Sheffield will conduct...
The warden of Goldsmiths, University of London has been named the next vice-chancellor of the University of London. Geoffrey Crossick, a specialist in the social and urban history of Europe in the...
Some children with dyslexia suffer from a lack of communication between the two halves of their brains, according to researchers at the universities of Edinburgh and Lancaster. Psychologists from the...
Southampton's two universities could lose their chaplains in a £1.6 million cost-cutting drive by church leaders. The chaplains at the University of Southampton and Southampton Solent University are...
Bucking the sector trend for course closures, Cardiff University has launched a programme of part-time courses in the humanities. The range of 150 courses is to be delivered by the institution's...
A group of "cyber sleuths" are to be trained by Edinburgh Napier University to track down computer hackers that cost the British economy billions of pounds each year. The university's School of...
Leeds programme head resigns over demand for more academic input, writes Melanie Newman