A flesh-eating slug discovered by scientists at Cardiff University has been named by New Scientist magazine as one of the ten strangest species identified in recent years. Bill Symondson, faculty...
The debt owed by modern Britain to slavery is to be investigated by historians at University College London. The team aims to create the first encyclopaedia of British slave owners, an online...
An explosion in Bangladesh's rat population will be tackled by a scientist based at the University of Greenwich. Steve Belmain, an applied ecologist in the university's Natural Resources Institute,...
Basketry, one of the oldest forms of human technology, is the focus of a major research project at the University of East Anglia. The two-and-a-half-year programme, nicknamed "Beyond the Basket",...
A unique masters qualification promoting better communication between adults working with children and young people has been launched by Newman University College, Birmingham. Hilary Dunphy,...
A group of 26 students at Liverpool Hope University will take part in an international volunteering programme. The team will spend between two and four weeks abroad, helping with schemes ranging from...
The contract between the University of Sussex and Study Group, the international education provider, has been renewed. Study Group will continue to manage the International Study Centre at Sussex,...
Britain's chances of securing an impressive haul of gold medals at the 2012 Olympics will be boosted by the University of Central Lancashire, if all goes to plan. The university has won a contract to...
Scientists from the universities of Dundee and Aberdeen have created software to help disabled children take control of conversations. The programme, called "How was school today?", allows children...
A film by academics at two universities will premier at a conference on Indian cinema. The film by Nirmal Puwar, senior lecturer in the department of sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London,...
The Open University has partnered Pearson Plc, owner of the Financial Times, to launch a part-time MBA. The pilot Global MBA, to be launched this month, is a 30-month programme aimed at students in...
Lina Bjorno, a final-year performance and visual arts student at the University of Brighton, puts the finishing touches to her installation at the Burt Brill and Cardens Graduate Show 2009. This year...
AustraliaAssaults may batter marketA series of physical attacks on foreign students have left Australia dangerously close to sanctions that could lead to the collapse of its international student...
US faculty veterans are willing to go to court to claim the 'emeritus' honorific. Jon Marcus reports
Academics love to hate them, but university league tables can be a force for good, according to new research.A report by the US Institute for Higher Education Policy has found that rankings can...