A higher education "superfair" was due to be hosted by Anglia Ruskin University this week, bringing 7,000 potential university students and representatives of 120 other institutions on to its campus...
The independent travel publisher Lonely Planet has produced a guide for prospective University of Glasgow students from around the world. The 48-page guide, produced in association with the...
Fashion designer Karen Millen and charity HOPEHIV are to work with the University College for the Creative Arts at Rochester to train a group of 20 young people with HIV in South Africa in fashion...
A lecturer is using mobile-phone voting to ensure that quieter students take part in his tutorials at the University of Portsmouth. Manish Malik, a senior lecturer in electronic and computer...
Associate tutors at the University of Sussex who are paid by the hour are protesting after a revaluation of their jobs resulted in pay cuts for some. Hourly paid tutors in some schools have been...
An international queer studies conference is to be hosted by Canterbury Christ Church University in February 2009. The conference, "Queering Paradigms", will "look at the status quo and the...
A four-day forum to debate democracy was due to be held by the University of Lincoln this week. Entitled "Magna Carta 2008: Exploring Democracy", it will become an annual event in the run-up to the...
A charity set up in memory of Richard Dimbleby has funded a new cancer research centre. Scientists at the Richard Dimbleby Laboratory of Cancer Research at King's College London will focus on...
Political communications, campaigning and reporting techniques will be the focus of a new masters course. City University London has launched an MA in political campaigning and reporting, which...
A £50 million finance package agreed with Barclays Commercial Bank will fund teaching and research facilities, sporting facilities and staff and student accommodation at Queen's University Belfast....
The Scottish Funding Council has said it will commit up to £50 million towards the first phase of redeveloping the Glasgow School of Art campus and replacing three poor-quality buildings. The...
The European Commission has awarded £8 million to a team of 18 European partners to develop pocket-sized, energy-efficient biomedical lasers. The University of Dundee is leading the project, which...
A chance encounter led Alan Clements to a visiting professorship in Cuba, where he has also helped shape the IT curriculum
Soraya Dhillon has been honoured for her work for the second time after she was awarded the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain Charter Gold Medal. Professor Dhillon, head of the School of...
Clinical research 'inappropriate' to test alternative therapies, practitioners argue. Zoe Corbyn writes