A decision about whether to close an undergraduate geosciences degree at the University of St Andrews has been postponed for another year. A proposal put forward by senior managers and academic staff...
The rights and wrongs of assisted suicide were debated at the University of Salford's School of Nursing this week. The aim was to discuss whether the Royal College of Nursing should maintain its...
A team of architects has defeated international competition in a contest to design a cultural park in China. The plan, drawn up by a team including Christine Hawley, dean of the faculty of the built...
Scientists are to use a £1.5 million grant to conduct a four-year analysis of how best to change the UK's transport systems to limit their impact on the climate. The group at the University of...
Another university has launched a campaign to help its new graduates find work when they emerge into the recession-hit job market. Manchester Metropolitan University's initiative, known as Talent@MMU...
Cut-price tuition is being offered to postgraduate students by the University of Bradford. The institution is offering to knock £750 off tuition fees for many of its taught full-time postgraduate...
A team of researchers from Keele University has helped to referee a chocolate taste test to determine whether the UK's Cadbury's chocolate or its US rival Hershey's is preferred by the public. The...
The skills involved in translating foreign-language films will be taught on a new course launched by City University London. The part-time MA in audiovisual translation, which is starting this autumn...
A theatre company set up by the University of Winchester has received an international award for its work with prisoners. The university has been awarded a MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship by...
A poet working at Bangor University is one of ten writers to have been long-listed for the English section of the Wales Book of the Year 2009 award. Zoe Skoulding has been included on the list for...
Margaret Thatcher's legacy will be explored by experts in media and culture at a special colloquium organised by the Gender and Culture Research Group at the University of the West of England."The...
Dawn Primarolo, the Minister for Public Health, has opened a £4 million fertility unit in London. The assisted conception unit, a joint collaboration between King's College London and Guy's and St...
Research into practices in Jacobean theatre by Martin White, professor of theatre at the University of Bristol, is featured on an interactive DVD. The disc was created by Ignition Films as an...
Ian Stewart is being honoured for his work promoting maths and sharing his passion for it with the public. Hannah Fearn reports
United StatesBonds ... Stanford bondsTop US universities are "selling debt" in a bid to shore up their recession-hit finances. Stanford University has become the latest leading institution to sell...