The Queen last week opened Scotland's first new campus in 40 years. Queen Margaret University has moved from a number of separate locations in Edinburgh to a single, £100 million site that is...
A project to showcase the work of its academics through short online videos has won the University of Nottingham an International Business Award 2008. "Test Tube", produced by Nottingham Science City...
Experts from across the globe gathered last week at the University of Essex to mark the 25th anniversary of the institution's Human Rights Centre. Essex was the first UK university to offer a...
A team of Anglia Ruskin academics has travelled to India to pair up with animation training company Frameboxx. The organisation, which trains animators based in India for the work required by...
Students whose parents are staff at the University of Northampton will receive £250 a year if they join the university as undergraduates in the next academic year. Registrar Jane Bunce said the...
An exhibition of Polynesian art, first shown as part of a University of East Anglia research programme, is to be recreated in Paris. The project, run by Steven Hooper at UEA, aimed to investigate the...
Formal status as a designated higher education institute, financed by the Scottish Funding Council, has been attained by the Scottish Agricultural College. The SAC was the last remaining "central...
A third British university has been granted a licence to work on human-animal hybrid embryos for research. The licence, granted to the University of Warwick by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology...
About 700 personal letters by the American poet and short-story writer Laura (Riding) Jackson have been donated to Nottingham Trent University. The donation was made by a research fellow at the...
A £1.6 million project to explore, conserve and catalogue more than 600 feet of material relating to the steel industry in the Teesside area, between the University of Teesside and Teesside Archives...
A new map of the North East of England reveals a host of hitherto unrecorded boundaries that will variously be hailed as "ace", "champion", "choz", "cushty", "daza" or "mint". Michael Pearce of the...
A Scottish university is pressing ahead with plans that the University and College Union Scotland fears could undermine academics' employment rights. The University of Stirling court has agreed to...
Two papers from Queen's University Belfast have been declared "current classics" by Thomson Scientific, which says that they are among the most referenced in the world by geoscientists. Twenty-five...
Predicting the spread of the mountain pine beetle, currently devastating the lodgepole pine forests of British Columbia, is like watching party guests, according to an ecology expert. Javier Gamarra...
Students at King's College London will don "designer" dress at their graduation ceremonies this summer after fashion designer Vivienne Westwood was recruited to design the college's academic attire....