The £600,000 hub of a national network of excellence supporting elite student athletes will be based at the University of Stirling, the Scottish Funding Council has announced. It will help create...
A degree in music video production will be a first for the UK. The BSc course, currently in the process of being validated, is to be launched by the University of Bolton and the Manchester School of...
Couples in mixed Protestant-Catholic relationships in Northern Ireland tend to be more educated and to have higher incomes than those in traditional relationships, according to research from the...
The birthplace of Dennis the Menace and Minnie the Minx will host the second international comic conference next month. Dundee's history is inextricably linked with the DC Thomson empire that...
An academic is to travel to the Eurovision Song Contest as an expert commentator. Phil Jackson, a senior lecturer in media at Edge Hill University, has been selected by the BBC to attend the contest...
Emma Henley, a student at Newport School of Art, Media and Design, will show a series of self-portraits entitled Newport Bus Station at the school's annual graduate show, which starts next week at...
A professor who has helped develop technology allowing law students to act on behalf of "virtual" clients is among this year's batch of Higher Education Academy senior fellows.Students of Paul Maharg...
HEA chief executive says that inspiration not consumerisation is key to university experience, says Rebecca Attwood
Vice-chancellor keen to boost post-16 attainment and foster university study, writes Melanie Newman
A warts-and-all account of student life has been sanctioned at the University of Kent. Its latest prospectus includes in-depth interviews with two students who take issue with the "glossy, self-...
Masters scholarship programmeScotland to boost links with USScotland's higher education institutions are offering more than 50 masters scholarships to US students to boost links between the nations....
A €21m pot is up for grabs from pan-European collaborations in humanities, writes Chloe Stothart
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILThe BBSRC and the French National Research Agency (ANR) have funded ten projects worth £6.5 million to boost European collaboration in systems...
Despite prevailing orthodoxies, creative writing is stealthily reviving liberal humanism, says Jonathan Taylor
In applauding students for their IT dexterity, do we encourage the mere collection of facts and intellectual inertia? asks Bob Simpson