Academics at the University of Glasgow have been awarded travelling fellowships as part of a project assessing a treatment programme for abused children who now live in foster homes. Helen Minnis and...
The National Union of Students has awarded the University of Leeds the title of the best students' union in Britain. At a recent ceremony in London, Leeds won the NUS Higher Education Union of the...
A new £1.6 million analytical research facility has opened at the University of York. The Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry, which has been funded with capital investment from regional...
Space scientists descended on the capital for a conference hosted by two of London's universities. The 48th meeting of the Cassini Project Science Group, hosted by University College London and...
The power source of "cosmic blobs" has been identified by researchers at Durham University. The blobs - huge, brightly glowing reservoirs of hydrogen gas in the early Universe - were discovered ten...
A module on building virtual worlds - the first of its kind in the UK - is to be launched at Glasgow Caledonian University. It will teach the design and development of 3D internet "worlds" using...
Academics at the University of Leicester took part in a paper-free seminar on the uses and abuses of social media via Twitter. Presenters at last week's event - including academics, politicians,...
A "progression agreement" signed by City University London and five London colleges aims to widen participation in higher education. It focuses on progression from access diploma courses and...
Robots were the subject of a conference held at King's College London last week. The first International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots discussed topics such as domestic uses for...
The University of Liverpool's refurbished engineering building sets out to transform the teaching of the subject through its Active Learning Laboratory.The development has already changed Liverpool's...
Universities are improving participation rates and achievement levels among students with disabilities, a study suggests.An analysis of the enrolment and graduation of students with disabilities...
Scholars are researching sustainability but not instituting it on campus, writes Zoë Corbyn
United States - Axe falls at HarvardHarvard University has announced that it will cut 5 jobs in response to the collapse of its endowment income. It appears that most of the institution's ten schools...
Economic development strategy calls for foreign boost to knowledge economy, writes Phil Baty
A £13.5m facility will open new avenues of research by enabling the sequencing of plant DNA. Lee Bunce writes