A multimillion-pound donation will help create the world's leading institute for private equity education and research. Funded by the J. Coller Foundation, the Coller Institute of Private Equity, to...
Nuns have long been neglected by historians but will be the focus of a new study funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. A team of researchers at Queen Mary, University of London, have...
A British wading bird's risky feeding habits have been exposed by researchers at the University of Birmingham. The team from Birmingham's centre for ornithology found that golden plovers have large,...
Can entrepreneurship be taught? The University of Coventry thinks so, and has launched a new MA in Global Entrepreneurship to prove it. The two-year course, to be offered from January 2009, will be...
The way in which an individual's identity influences the process of learning is under scrutiny at a new centre at Edge Hill University. The Centre for Learners' Identity Studies, which opens this...
A sports science researcher at the University of Teesside, Iain Spears, hopes he can help prevent - or at least reduce the incidence of - that most fashionable of football injuries, the fractured...
Biblical values are needed to balance secular bias, claims lecturer. Melanie Newman reports
A popular venue for weddings, King's College Chapel is at the heart of the medieval university in the cobbled streets of Old Aberdeen. It is topped by the Crown Tower, voted the nation's third most "...
Union withdraws INTO criticism, saying it lacks funds for costly legal dispute. Melanie Newman reports
LSE Centre for Economic Performance'Charge elite students more'A research paper that analyses the financial dividends of higher education says that students at elite institutions should pay more for...
Why is it not possible to choose individual courses from a number of different universities, asks Khaled Benkrid
The QAA's promotion of bureaucratic centralisation cannot go unchecked, says Terence Kealey - reform is needed
V-c says government funding should be used to 'transform lives', reports Rebecca Attwood
Watchdog criticises lack of oversight at institutional level, reports Melanie Newman
Amid reams of coverage of the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings, The Times said the league table offered a glimpse into a bleak future for mainland Europe. Noting that the...