Funding of £200,000 has been granted to the University of Winchester for a three-year research project that aims to improve assessment in higher education. The project - Transforming the Experience...
A new £17 million building at the University of Reading named after British physicist Harold Horace Hopkins has been formally opened by his son, Kelvin Hopkins MP. The building will house the...
An important private theatre and film collection will be made available to the public thanks to a donation. During his lifetime, author, critic and broadcaster Sheridan Morley amassed a library of...
Punk "did not die, it just moved east", researchers have claimed. A team led by Hilary Pilkington, professor of sociology at the University of Warwick, is researching why post-socialist punk has...
A revolutionary piece of software allowing enhanced analysis and management of forensic crime scenes has been developed by engineers at the University of Sheffield. The software provides a common...
The number of politics and history courses offered by Liverpool Hope University at both undergraduate and postgraduate level is to increase as part of a continuing expansion. The department of...
A global brand agency has paired up with a London university to launch a masters degree in brand development. The postgraduate degree, offered by The Brand Union and Goldsmiths, University of London...
An exhibition covering the career of a former diplomatic interpreter is being held at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. From Arabia to Exeter: A Family's Story...
Bucks New University is the only university to appear on the front of first-team football shirts following a partnership with Wycombe Wanderers Football Club. The agreement places the university as...
Once simply known as the fish most likely to turn up in the net of pond-dippers, the stickleback is now known to have a "human" ability to learn. Research carried out at Durham University found that...
Staff and students at the University of Strathclyde were due to take part in a second protest on 23 June against management plans to axe jobs and cut departments. About 140 voluntary redundancies...
Scientists at the University of Aberdeen have cracked the genetic code of a fungus responsible for potentially deadly infections in humans. It is hoped that understanding the genetic make-up of six...
An archive of 19th-century science has been acquired by the University of Manchester's John Rylands University Library after being stored in obscurity for more than 100 years. The collection of...
A team of forensic archaeologists, anthropologists and dentists get to work on an artificial mass grave at Holton Heath in Dorset, six weeks after the replica skeletons were buried.The 21 sets of...
United StatesCall to oust university presidentA row has broken out in Nevada after Jim Rogers, the state's higher education chancellor, called for the dismissal of the president of the University of...