The public will choose the projects academics carry out in partnership with local communities in a scheme launched by Manchester Metropolitan University. Researchers have proposed 46 community...
A 92-year-old retired college head has donated £100,000 to help students with fees and living costs. The gift, to the University of Greenwich, was made by Kathleen Jones, former principal of Avery...
The University and College Union has warned the University of Plymouth against making staff compulsorily redundant after accounts for the past academic year revealed a surplus. Earlier this year the...
The University of Bath has been awarded more than £12 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to create two new doctoral training centres. About £5 million will go to the...
Young women must put safety first when socialising over the festive season, a University of Ulster study into sexual assault has said. The research, the first of its kind in Northern Ireland, found...
A London university is fostering links with India via a partnership. King's College London and Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi will develop research links and a student exchange scheme after...
Letters written by Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell have been acquired by the University of Manchester's John Rylands University Library. The correspondence, which amounts to hundreds of letters...
Sixty academics on fixed-term contracts at Swansea University face a jobless New Year when European funding for their posts runs out on 31 December. Some 130 staff have been funded by the "Objective...
A sustainability project conducted by the University of East Anglia appears to have changed the way local residents travel. This summer, staff at East Anglia asked 250 households to carry out a...
A businessman has donated "a substantial six-figure sum" to help create an "enterprise zone" in the University of Stirling library. The donation is from Jim McColl, chairman and chief executive of...
New classrooms designed to "break down the barriers between students and lecturers" have opened at the University of Lincoln. In 17 rooms on the university's Brayford Pool campus, rows of desks have...
A university is to use a ballet company's tour of China to raise its profile in a country that sends 50,000 students a year to the UK. The University of Birmingham is sending representatives on the...
Aberystwyth University and Bangor University are joining forces to establish a new centre for teacher education. One of three national centres, it will train primary and secondary teachers from 2010...
V-cs in 'state of denial' about quality of internal communications, survey reveals. John Gill reports
The University of Gloucestershire's Oxstalls Campus is built on the site of a former domestic science college just five minutes' drive from Gloucester. Set in mature parkland, it looks out over the...