A medical student from the University of Leicester has graduated with a masters degree in medical humanities - midway through her undergraduate medical training. Under Leicester's programme, students...
An agricultural college has been given a £500,000 donation by a former student who made his fortune in the poultry industry.Harper Adams University College will use the cash to set up a new student...
NHS London has published a new measure of universities' work to ensure that the next generation of healthcare professionals have the correct skills. The quality assurance system focuses on value for...
Princess Anne has opened a new building that will house up to 90 staff and space for research and teaching. The South Courtyard Building at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine contains...
A short film co-produced by a university psychologist has won the award for best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film at the London Independent Film Festival. Homoworld is a 17-minute film...
Peace triumphed over War - again - in the latest round of the Tolstoy Cup. The annual football match between teams from the peace studies department at the University of Bradford and the war studies...
We asked you to tell us the moment in history you would most like to have caught on video camera. The diverse - and creative - results are now in. Our ten favourites are printed below, in no...
United StatesLawyer loses on 'frivolous' groundsA lawyer who sued Columbia University for failing to offer men's studies courses has lost his case. Roy Den Hollander accused the university of bias...
Public outcry followed dismissal of global expert on climate change. Melanie Newman reports
President Nicolas Sarkozy is refusing to back down from planned reforms to French higher education despite 15 weeks of strikes by academics and a call by university presidents for a moratorium.
Gary Day sings an ode to manliness, from 11th-century swordplay to 21st-century six-packs
Shock waves rolled around our campus this week as a special investigation by The Poppletonian revealed serious and possibly fraudulent misuse of the Conference Expenses Fund.Records obtained by us...
Kevin Fong bemoans science's continuing inability to secure its future
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