New research has proven something downtrodden employees must have suspected for decades - our bosses control us through fear. Psychologists in the UK and Canada investigated the effectiveness of...
A new wind turbine has been installed at the University of Essex as part of its drive towards sustainability. The turbine has been placed next to the new School of Health and Human Sciences building...
A 600-year-old recipe book compiled by the master cook of Richard II called Forme of Cury is among the items that can now be downloaded from the University of Manchester's John Rylands Library. The...
A festival giving sports lovers the chance to meet the journalists who write, report and comment on their favourite games kicks off this week. The inaugural Carnegie Sporting Words Festival is being...
A student nurse's allegation that Anglia Ruskin University helped the Royal College of Nursing to discriminate against her has been thrown out by the Employment Appeal Tribunal. The nurse, Mrs...
A Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies has been opened by the University of Nottingham at its campus in Ningbo, China. The project, a collaboration between the UK and China, focuses on new and...
Will a machine be able to fool judges into thinking it is human? That is the question that will be posed at the University of Reading on 12 October when it hosts this year's Loebner Prize for...
A "Chemical equator" divides the polluted air of the Northern Hemisphere from the much cleaner atmosphere of the Southern Hemisphere, researchers at the University of York have discovered. They found...
A new course at Kingston University aims to bridge the gap between "creatives" and "suits" in the advertising industry. The MA Creative Economy course is designed to help creatives understand what...
Viennese coffeehouses at the turn of the last century are the focus of a festival and conference to be staged by the Royal College of Art. The Vienna Cafe Festival and conference, beginning this week...
British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) has given the University of Manchester £5 million to develop its nuclear research programme and expand its training programmes for nuclear engineers. Under the endowment...
A pioneering approach is to be applied to a study of the way in which the human mind draws meaning from the world at Bangor University. Guillaume Thierry, deputy head of the school of psychology,...
Geoffrey Alderman has found a way of letting off steam now that he is semi-retired.The professor of politics and contemporary history at the University of Buckingham is learning to drive a steam...
IndiaUniversity offers legal aidAn Indian university has pledged to provide legal aid to two students accused of involvement in a series of bomb attacks in Delhi last month. The Jamia Millia Islamia...
Business school partners will tailor management courses for developing world, writes Hannah Fearn