A ten-year collaboration between The Open University and the College of Law has been sealed for another decade. Initiated in 1997, the partnership has become the largest provider of taught law-degree...
A scheme that encourages science postgraduates to become schoolteachers is being expanded with funding from the Foyle Foundation. Imperial College London's Inspire programme, which combines a...
Barack Obama's favourite CD was produced by a UK academic. Borders Books recently revealed the US President-elect's selection of "top-five favourites", consisting of four books and a musical album,...
It takes just 15 minutes of exercise to reduce cravings for food or drugs, according to researchers from the School of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Exeter. Exercise has already been...
Students from the University of Sheffield's theatre workshop performed a play by His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, ruler of Sharjah, part of the United Arab Emirates. The...
World Bank says recent expansion has come at a cost of poor teaching and research, writes John Gill
Efforts are being made to crack down on "degree mills" that flood the US with fake degrees.The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) has written to the governors and attorneys-general of...
United StatesPeru to sue Yale over artefactsThe Government of Peru has indicated that it will sue Yale University in an attempt to recover thousands of Inca relics excavated by a US explorer almost a...
British-based academics beat continental rivals but low number of female winners worries funders. Zoe Corbyn reports
EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCILThe European Research Council has announced the winners of its advanced grants in interdisciplinary research; 13 per cent of the call was set aside for this area. The awards...
Enock Matovu's groundbreaking research into sleeping sickness is helping to save lives and winning him honours
The Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at Lancaster University has appointed Michael Kraetke as its director. Currently professor of political economy at the University of Amsterdam, Professor...
A prizewinning historian began her academic career aged 40, and she's never looked back. Olga Wojtas reports
Following the spectacular international sales successes of The D-Day and Victory in Europe Experiences, Carlton Books is launching the biggest publishing venture in its history: The Second World War...
Exchange-rate shifts could expose UK institutions to dangerous drops in income, says John Gill