A doctor has donated almost £2 million to the University of Edinburgh - more than 60 years after he died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Australian Albert McKern graduated from Edinburgh in 1917...
A London university has been declared "baby friendly". Dawn Primarolo, Minister for Public Health, handed over Unicef UK's first Baby Friendly award to the King's College London's Florence...
A centre for research in the arts has been opened at the University of Northampton. The Avenue Research Centre, opened officially this week, will house a centre for contemporary fiction and narrative...
A northern accent can have a positive effect on how intelligent you appear to other people, according to researchers at Bath Spa University. Researchers Lance Workman and Hayley-Jane Smith asked 48...
A student who downloaded indecent images of children on to a computer in the university library has kept his job working on the student union's reception desk. The student, 26, who is studying for a...
Women may undergo the menopause to reduce reproductive competition between generations in the same family, scientists have suggested. Teams at the University of Cambridge and the University of Exeter...
Journalism studies students from Sheffield Hallam University are to work in the Beijing Olympic press office during the Olympic Games in August. Twenty-four students will travel to Beijing to write...
A public consultation over controversial expansion into green-belt land has been launched by the University of Bath. The university has been given permission by councillors to develop about 40 acres...
Researchers in the Cardiff School of Biosciences will work with international colleagues on a project to sequence the giant panda genome. The collaboration will help scientists to understand the...
A computer that "thinks" in Welsh has been created by scientists at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. A computer running the Konrad software, developed by Derek J. Smith, a lecturer in UWIC's...
The archaeology of food and drink will be the subject of a conference this week at the University of Nottingham. The event will consider consumption practices of the past, the use of food to...
Some might see it as art, but for others it's just a load of pants. Staff and students at the University of Abertay Dundee took part in a drawing competition - on pairs of knickers. The stunt, to...
Boozy students are damaging not only their health but also their academic performance by drinking too much alcohol.Researchers at Edge Hill University who studied a sample of 46 second-year students...
Paper argues that such a move will help universities conform to disability law. Melanie Newman reports
While non-traditional students see improved salaries as a result of attending university, they also increase their risk of mental illness later in life, research by the Institute of Education has...