The Educational Institute of Scotland is warning of a spate of employment tribunals if the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama proceeds with restructuring plans to combat a £600,000 shortfall....
The "Scottish Samurai", Thomas Blake Glover, who is credited with laying the foundation of the modern Japanese economy, has been commemorated in a memorial seminar at The Robert Gordon University....
Rollercoasters that can respond to their passengers' emotions are to be developed by scientists at the University of Nottingham. Research will focus initially on developing systems to monitor riders...
Fertility expert and television personality Lord Winston has become the patron of an £8 million fundraising campaign to create a world-class drug research and development centre at the University of...
John Denham, the Universities Secretary, has opened a £10 million building for art, media, design and computing students at the University of Teesside. The Athena Building offers broadcast news...
Ten years on from the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland is not yet a "normal" society, according to a report published at Queen's University Belfast. It is based on information from the 2007...
Two product design engineering students can calculate the value of work experience at £200,000. Glasgow School of Art students Gregor Aikman and Danny Kane have marked their graduation this month by...
A symposium on the television game show will be held at the University of Glamorgan on 20 June. The event will bring together academics and industry practitioners, including producers of Britain's...
A crime-fighting seminar has focused not on detective work or CCTV but on cutting-edge design. Lorraine Gamman, a keynote speaker at the Safer Sustainable Cities event at Swansea Metropolitan...
The increasing recognition that regular exercise is crucial for health and wellbeing is being supported by a new MSc course that ranges from leadership in promoting public health to the psychology of...
An Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences that opened last month has secured £5.8 million from external sponsors. Based at Aberystwyth University, it will support projects ranging...
Thirty new researchers in human health and wellbeing will be in post by October in a £5 million expansion of the Wolfson Research Institute at Durham University. The sum invested includes more than £...
Live snails are used to transmit e-mails in a project devised by researchers at Bournemouth University. The snails are fitted with tiny capsules that hold radio-frequency identification chips. As the...
A robot with an artistic temperament stole the show at a university exhibition."Robotticelli", the brainchild of fine art student Wayne Hill, was described by its creator as the perfect toy for lazy...
Researchers accused of breaching university rules for failing to declare income. John Gill reports