The University of Chester's decision to sponsor an academy school is being opposed by local people. A campaign group, Keep Ellesmere Port Schools (Keeps), is fighting plans to replace a specialist...
The General Medical Council has ruled that a University of Dundee lecturer forged references he submitted with his application to a postgraduate course. When Rafik Anis, clinical lecturer in...
The recent cut in the rate of VAT has prompted the University of Derby to give staff up to £100 in shopping vouchers, to a total value of £211,000. It says the reduction from 17.5 per cent to 15 per...
Academics at Leeds Metropolitan University have been urged by a local rugby union club to promote the game at their new-year lectures. University managers received an email from the Leeds Carnegie...
Students are more concerned about finding a job after they graduate than partying, according to the University of Hertfordshire. A national survey it conducted found that nine out of ten students...
The future of solar-power generation could be shaped by a University of Salford project to improve the efficiency and durability of thin-film solar-cell panels. Researchers at its Institute for...
Researchers are citing the feet of gibbons as the modern-day equivalents of those on which prehistoric man may have moved about around 2 million years ago. Scientists at the University of Liverpool...
The student support and guidance and careers and employability departments at the University of Chester have been graded "world class" by an international assessor. The university said the five-star...
Staff at the University of Bolton's School of the Built Environment are taking part in a Department of Transport-commissioned three-year study on the popularity of cycling in the UK. Bolton is one of...
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors is funding an investigation of how surveying and built-environment education should adapt to meet the needs of industry over the next two decades. The £30,...
The Met Office has released early global temperature figures, in partnership with the University of East Anglia, showing that 2008 was the tenth warmest year since records began in 1850. The...
Students with a strong interest in current affairs are much more likely to plan to go to university than those who are not engaged with the news, research suggests.Researchers measured the "cultural...
Universities all over the country are upping their efforts to get schoolchildren on campus, but a science centre at Queen Mary, University of London is hoping to raise the bar substantially when it...
DIUS funding£158m retraining allocationsThe Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) has released details of how it will allocate a £158 million fund to help train people who are...
Fears of a price war are mounting following the freeing of universities to set their own overseas student fees from next year. And there are predictions that the ending of the informal cartel using...