Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, has launched Focus on the Future, Heriot-Watt University's £10 million strategy to increase its academic staff by 50 per cent over ten years. The university...
London Metropolitan University is to pay its staff the 5 per cent October pay rise in full and on time, but it has said "permanent reductions" in staffing may have to be considered. In an internal...
Sir George Cox, former chairman of the UK Design Council, has opened a £12 million development to support the "digital revolution" transforming the economy of the North East. The high-tech Phoenix...
Napier University has marked the 90th anniversary of the First World War armistice by holding an open day at its War Poets collection. The collection features the works of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried...
A plan to attract research funding to South Wales and the West Country was launched this week through collaboration between the dental schools of the universities of Bristol and Cardiff and the...
The University and College Union at the University of Northampton has voted in favour of industrial action short of a strike after news of plans to make two academics in the history division...
A programme that aims to create a generation of "business-savvy" scientists has been launched by the University of Aberdeen. From next October, science students will be able to take a bio-business...
Electronic "noses" that can sniff out diseased and damaged plants have been developed by Lancaster University. The e-noses mimic a human sense of smell using sensors that respond to airborne...
Dr Who is set to take centre stage this week when the University of Cardiff plays host to a postgraduate conference on "Whoniversal appeal". Under the title "Doctor Who and all its Spin-Offs", the...
Playing like a child could be better for your health than traditional adult exercise such as jogging, according to research from the University of Glamorgan. Julien Baker, a professor at the...
The rock guitarist Johnny Marr has returned to the scene of one of his best gigs in his new position as visiting lecturer at the University of Salford. As guitarist in The Smiths, he performed at the...
A partnership between Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in India and the University of Warwick will result in collaborations in the study of law, governance, social studies and the arts. A memorandum...
The UK's largest collection of social and political cartoons, archived at the University of Kent, has gone online. The project, funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee, will allow free...
Hot on the heels of the release of the latest James Bond film, a "spy researcher" from the University of Warwick has said the improbable villains favoured in 007 movies now bear a close resemblance...
As Barack Obama prepares to take office as the first black US president, civil rights campaigner Reverend Jesse Jackson is to give a lecture at Edge Hill University on the relationship between race...