Online worlds developed for children can help them to develop social and creative skills, a conference has heard. As part of a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the BBC,...
A scheme to develop a new generation of entrepreneurs has won £1 million in funding. Strathclyde Entrepreneurial Network at the University of Strathclyde, which supports students and graduates in...
A specialist centre is to provide the ambulance service with improved access to training and academic expertise. The Centre for Paramedic Science, run by Kingston University and St George's,...
An orthopaedic surgeon has performed a groundbreaking operation on a chimpanzee in Cameroon to correct a deformity to its arm. The three-year-old female lives in a chimpanzee reserve but was unable...
A podiatry lecturer is encouraging her students to collect used shoes and donate them to people who are homeless. Evelyn Weir of Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh has been providing volunteer...
How we wash our laundry is to come under investigation by the Mackintosh Environmental Architecture Research Unit at Glasgow School of Art, backed by funding of more than £520,000 from the...
Scientists will use robots to explore the growth of undersea volcanoes. Academics from Durham University will lead a team of 12 scientists - including researchers from the National Oceanography...
A Midlands university has updated its logo - by replacing the design's existing red colour for a new, "deeper" red. The change by De Montfort University has been made following research carried out...
The Dalai Lama visited London Metropolitan University last week, where he accepted an honorary doctorate.London Met conferred the doctorate of philosophy on the Tibetan spiritual leader at a ceremony...
Demands by overseas cohort for 'exclusive' services test hard-hit librarians. John Gill reports
The University of Hertfordshire has been forced to allow an Orthodox Jewish student to sit a final exam a day early under threat of legal action for religious discrimination.Anthony Julius, a lawyer...
Labor's inaugural budget offers A$500m windfall to help 'rebuild' Australian sector. John Gill writes
United StatesRaid nets drugs, guns, studentsA five-month undercover police operation has led to more than 100 arrests and the seizure of huge quantities of cash and drugs at a US university. The...
BBSRC money fosters multidisciplinary teams to build UK strength in synthetic biology, writes Chloe Stothart
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILThe Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council have awarded funding to...