The Princess Royal has officially opened a new clinical research facility at St Thomas' Hospital. Researchers at King's College London and clinical staff at the hospital will undertake multi-...
The 12th Duke of Devonshire, Peregrine Cavendish, has been installed as chancellor of the University of Derby. Almost 400 guests attended the event marking the appointment, including honorary...
Charity Commonwheels has teamed up with Bucks New University to provide an on-campus green car club for employees and students. The club aims to reduce single-occupancy car journeys to and from the...
Engineering academics have launched a three-year initiative to persuade more Welsh students to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects. Swansea University engineers...
India's first mission to the Moon will provide data for two Open University researchers. Mahesh Anand and David Rothery, of the Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research, are co-...
An International Centre for Wellbeing and Quality of Life has been launched at Bournemouth University. The cross-university centre, based in the School of Health and Social Care, will examine and...
When viewing pictures of someone they hate, people display activity in distinct areas of the brain, new research suggests. Semir Zeki and John Romaya of the Wellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology at...
Treatment of a painful joint condition may improve thanks to a project at Keele University. Researchers have won £788,000 in funding for a five-year study of osteoarthritis, a condition that affects...
Help is at hand for small businesses in Leicestershire worried about how to deal with the threat of recession. De Montfort University is offering a free workshop to assist local businesses from all...
Three billion Asians face an impending food crisis, according to research carried out by the University of Manchester. Academics say the escalating cost of rice across Asia is slowing economic growth...
Businesses' survival may depend on their readiness to deal with terrorist or extremist activity, ranging from bomb threats and chemical or biological contamination to vandalism. The Robert Gordon...
One of the special effects in the latest James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, a huge illuminated cube that pulsates to Latin rhythms at a party thrown by the film's villain, was designed and operated...
Fiction was due to turn into poetic fact in Edinburgh this week with Edward Mendelson, professor of humanities at Columbia University in New York, set to recreate a lecture about the poet W.H. Auden...
But university rejects accusations that it has not honoured donors' wishes. John Gill reports
Admissions proceduresLanguage rules may discriminateCertain university admissions procedures may breach equality legislation, the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) has warned. Some universities have a...