Academics have called for £280 billion to be spent worldwide on green policies as governments strive to tackle the credit crunch. Countries should spend on measures that will address the growing...
The music of Durham's 18th-century alehouses has been celebrated on the streets of northern cities with the help of Durham University's department of music. A recent concert celebrated the 300th...
A multimillion-pound revamp of the University of Ulster's campuses has been announced. The £250 million development plans for the Jordanstown and Belfast campuses will allow an expansion of the...
Spin doctor Alastair Campbell and former Downing Street chief of staff Jonathan Powell are among those contributing to a course on the Blair Government. The undergraduate course at Queen Mary,...
The academic integrity of students will be the focus of a University of York campaign. Led by York's Students' Union, the campaign's aim is to build up students' confidence about referencing material...
The wheat yield of British farmers may be improved thanks to a £1.7 million research project at the University of Liverpool. Scientists have been awarded funding to decode the genome of wheat, a crop...
The University of Sheffield has launched a centre to study issues of media freedom and standards in the UK and farther afield. The Centre for Freedom of the Media, part of the university's department...
More than 180 new places for postgraduate study have been created at the University of Exeter, at a cost of more than £7 million. From the autumn, 100 fully funded studentships will be available....
Researchers at the University of Portsmouth are taking part in a project to preserve rapidly vanishing technology and cultural information about the first digital-age generation. The team is helping...
A public inquiry into whether the University of the West of England will be allowed to build its Swindon campus on a beauty spot, Coate Water, is under way. The local branch of environmental campaign...
Wigan Warriors Rugby League Club has signed a two-year sponsorship deal with the University of Central Lancashire for the 2009 and 2010 Super League seasons. The university will help the Warriors...
An innovative research system that calculates the effect of tax and social-security benefits across Europe has been awarded EUR4.5 million (£4.03 million). The Euromod system, hosted by the Institute...
Paul Cartledge has taken up Cambridge's first new Classics chair for decades, and is keen on a spot of iconoclasm
Janet Beer, vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, has been elected chair of the University Alliance, the collection of pre- and post-1992 universities that are not members of the sector's...
Neil Turok, who left Cambridge for Canada, tells John Gill what ails British science and universities