A Scottish university's online-study programme has helped snowed-in residents of Highland villages to continue studying for their Higher and Advanced Higher examinations. Heriot-Watt University's...
The locations of the now-defunct Woolworths chain of stores have been found to form "precise geometric patterns" by a researcher at Queen Mary, University of London. Matt Parker, of the School of...
A part-time social work degree is to be introduced at Queen's University Belfast. The five-year bachelor of social work will see students attend classes for two and a half days a week. "People with...
Parents can rest easy - the thumping music coming from their children's bedrooms does not impede their ability to study, research at the Institute of Education, University of London has found. From...
An MRI scan has been successfully used in place of X-ray imaging in an operation to widen a heart valve. The technique involves using a new fibreglass guide wire to direct a catheter through a blood...
The potential dangers of "sat-navs" are being studied by a team of psychologists at Royal Holloway, University of London and spatial scientists at Lancaster University. Although the use of mobile...
A memorandum of understanding has been signed by the universities of Kent and Ghent. Julia Goodfellow, Kent's vice-chancellor, signed the deal during a visit to the Belgian university to bolster...
A new distance-learning programme for Ethiopia's 31,000 rural community health workers has been awarded $4 million (£2.4 million) by the United Nations Children's Fund. A cohort of 1,000 community...
A concentration camp survivor who was hidden by friends close to Anne Frank's house was due to give the University of Wolverhampton's annual Holocaust lecture this week. Martin Stern was set to give...
British children eat 5.5 billion packed lunches a year, but research from the University of Leeds shows that only 1 per cent of their lunch boxes are suitably nutritional. The study, commissioned by...
A programme at the University of Bolton aims to have an impact on the statistic that 75 per cent of children in state care leave school with no qualifications - and less than one in 100 go on to...
The recent cold snap saw the burden of lectures, essay marking and research impact proposals fleetingly forgotten for the delights of snowmen, snow angels and snowball fights. Although the sub-zero...
This is one of the few complete skeletons of Megaloceros giganteus, the largest member of the deer family known to science.Though sometimes called an "Irish elk", the animal ranged across Europe and...
Businessman complains to ASA over 'misleading' brand slogan. Hannah Fearn reports
ChinaChinese burns for Yale benefactorA Chinese graduate who made an $8,888,888 (£5,444,076) donation to Yale University has sparked an online backlash by overlooking his home alma mater. Zhang Lei...