Thames Valley University - Royal Paragon
The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, has opened Paragon House, an award-winning new building at Thames Valley University's Brentford campus that includes student accommodation and...
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Staffordshire University - VAT windfall funds training
A £500,000 windfall from the recent VAT cut will be spent by Staffordshire University on a scheme to help the unemployed and local firms. The university said the money would help to pay for training...
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Royal College of Art - Red-carpet ride for deadly duo
Graduates from a London art and design college enjoyed a place at the Oscars. Animation duo Adam Foulkes and Alan Smith, graduates of the Royal College of Art's animation department, were shortlisted...
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University of Reading - Natural-born killers
Pet cats could be responsible for killing up to 10,000 prey animals per sq km in urban areas, significantly affecting urban bird species. Researchers at the University of Reading are looking beyond...
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University of Plymouth - No compulsory redundancies
The University of Plymouth has said that no academics will face compulsory redundancy as part of its cost-cutting drive. The university is looking to shed 223 jobs - about 6.5 per cent of its...
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Northumbria University - Snow on TV news
Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow will speak at Northumbria University on how a rapidly changing world and new technologies are affecting the way television reports the news. Describing his lecture, Mr...
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University of Aberdeen - Hopes for vaccine for farmed fish
A vaccine to protect farmed salmon against viral and bacterial infections is being developed at the University of Aberdeen. "Understanding the key stages of fish and their immune systems is...
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Birkbeck, University of London - School names decided at last
The names of five new schools at Birkbeck, University of London, have been decided after almost a year of debate. They are: the School of Law; the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy;...
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De Montfort University - Scholarly screen treatments
From Jane Austen to Charles Dickens, adaptations of literary classics have always been a mainstay of cinema and television programming. Now a centre has been set up at De Montfort University to study...
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Data ark
The life history of the naked mole rat is among the records of more than 4,000 animal species that have been included in an online database at the University of Liverpool. The database, which is the...
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Mooted change to discipline rules stirs Cambridge debate
Fairer or fouler? Views vary on a proposed update to long-established code, writes Melanie Newman
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Original features
The Royal Veterinary College's new Centre for Emerging, Endemic and Exotic Diseases (CEEED) is a state-of-the-art hub for a multidisciplinary team of epidemiologists, immunologists, microbiologists,...
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News in brief
Lifelong learningMPs back more adult educationMore than 100 MPs have signed an early day motion lamenting the loss of 1.4 million adult-education places over the past two years and calling for more...
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Post-92 boards are set to shrink
DIUS to allow governing bodies with fewer staff and student members. Melanie Newman reports
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Take up the green challenge
Climate change is one of the gravest threats of our age, but universities are helping to tackle it, writes David Lammy