The culling of badgers has been found to be an inefficient and short-term solution to preventing bovine tuberculosis (bTB), a disease affecting cattle that cost the UK Government more than £100...
An alumnus of King's College London has donated £750,000 to its China Institute, to create a new Abraham Lue lectureship in Chinese entrepreneurship. Dr Lue, emeritus assistant principal of King's...
Humanitarian aid agencies must strike a reasonable balance between looking after their own safety and carrying out their duties, a lecturer who travelled to Haiti to help victims of the earthquake...
A new research centre at the University of Wolverhampton is to study the most aggressive brain cancers. The Brain Tumour UK Neuro-Oncology Research Centre is combining two teams of experts to...
A project to help graduates find work has been unveiled at Trinity College Dublin. The six-week programme, known as the Trinity Alumni Career Network, was launched following a survey of 15,000...
The consumer experience is to be investigated at the University of Sunderland. The Centre for Research into the Experience Economy at Sunderland's Business School will examine topics ranging from...
A new study has looked at how quickly the pre-conscious mind makes decisions before they become conscious. Volunteers at Goldsmiths, University of London were shown faces that were only slightly...
Digital mapping specialists have been using their skills to help victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. Three members of staff and dozens of students on Bath Spa University's geographic...
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According to well-informed sources meeting after dark behind the squash courts, Professor Doug Gunter of our Politics for Business Department faces disciplinary action over statements made during his...
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is sceptical about claims cat-owners are smarter
The head of the STFC tells Zoë Corbyn how he hopes to shield big science from financial shocks and crises
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John D. Brewer reflects on his passion for two artists who transcended social convention and produced work redolent of a bygone time and place
Despite the tales of jiggery-pokery employed to climb in the league tables, there is no need to sacrifice mission to position