Rising gun crime is not a result of the growth of gang culture in the UK, a study led by London Metropolitan University's Simon Hallsworth says. Mr Hallsworth, principal lecturer in the department of...
A part-time tutor who teaches observational drawing at Middlesex University is one of 56 artists chosen for the BP Portrait Award 2009 Exhibition. Middlesex lecturer Susan Light's portrait, Fatema,...
The difficulty of compiling football fixture lists for Christmas and New Year may have been eased by an academic from the University of Nottingham. Graham Kendall, professor at the School of Computer...
Academics are to turn their hand to advising house buyers and sellers. Experts in the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment at Nottingham Trent University will produce an online...
A series of scholarships has been launched by the University of Sheffield on the back of a donation from a crime writer and former student. The donation from Lee Child, a Sheffield graduate and...
Early relatives of modern spiders have been modelled in 3D by scientists at Imperial College London. A team led by Russell Garwood, a PhD student, created images of the 3,000-year-old creatures using...
The impact of cheap and easily available credit on personal debt in the UK is to be analysed by researchers at the University of York. The project, led by a team in the department of sociology, will...
Prospective students with life experience but no first degree can enrol for a masters at Edinburgh Napier University. The Bridging to Masters course, developed by the Edinburgh Institute at the...
The School of Language, Linguistics and Translation Studies at the University of East Anglia has changed its name. It will now be known as the School of Language and Communication Studies, reflecting...
Reasons to be fearful - Financial freefall looms for those who ignore the bottom line
Poorer students are missing out on places at top universities, a study suggests. Rebecca Attwood reports
Rather than treating visiting international students as cash cows or with suspicion, we should value the vital diversity they bring to education
The question of employment status is notoriously vexed. It affects the education sector along with all other areas of the workforce. Across the Channel, the world of Gallic reality television has...
Despite progress, fragmented arrangements leave institutions vulnerable to reputational damage. Melanie Newman reports
The question is not whether standards have fallen but rather whether we have the right standards for what we are trying to achieve, says Bob Brecher