A new sports performance centre to prepare aspiring athletes for future sporting success has been launched by Leeds Metropolitan University. Called the Carnegie Centre for Sports Performance and...
Scientists at the University of Bolton have won a major research grant to develop cheaper and more efficient solar cell technology. The project, led by professors Guosheng Shao and Jack Luo from the...
A plan to deliver nursing programmes in Uganda is being explored by the University of Chester. The proposal is being assessed after a visit to the country organised by the university and a local...
Surprise as 40 universities opt for the highest-risk tier of fund-matching scheme. Zoe Corbyn reports
Talking dust-bowl blues: historian and resolutely amateur musician Will Kaufman hymns the world of Guthrie and Steinbeck
The former controller of public policy at the BBC, David Levy, is to become the new director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) at the University of Oxford. The RISJ is an...
Criticism grows of composition of Whitehall and industry 'expert' groups. Hannah Fearn reports
In a novel move to encourage research into the world's greatest risks, AXA Insurance Group has awarded funding for research into climate change to the University of Bristol. The newly created AXA...
A deserted island, a lost man, memories of a fatal crash and a book written by a dying explorer are the premise behind an award-winning computer game designed by Dan Pinchbeck, senior lecturer in...
A new health psychology service for adults with "dental anxiety", the first of its kind in the UK, has been launched by King's College London. Tim Newton, leader of the new service, said: "Dental...
Rock-style music lessons are boosting the popularity of GCSE music, according to a new study. Set up in 2003 by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation to promote new ways of engaging 11- to 19-year-olds with...
A multimillion-pound donation will help create the world's leading institute for private equity education and research. Funded by the J. Coller Foundation, the Coller Institute of Private Equity, to...
Nuns have long been neglected by historians but will be the focus of a new study funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. A team of researchers at Queen Mary, University of London, have...
A British wading bird's risky feeding habits have been exposed by researchers at the University of Birmingham. The team from Birmingham's centre for ornithology found that golden plovers have large,...
Can entrepreneurship be taught? The University of Coventry thinks so, and has launched a new MA in Global Entrepreneurship to prove it. The two-year course, to be offered from January 2009, will be...