Students from the University of Dundee are working with a Scottish disability charity to examine why people volunteer and what makes them continue to offer their time. Postgraduate students studying...
Southern Ireland, Wales and eastern England are sinking while Scotland is rising, according to researchers at Durham University. A "coastland map" produced by scientists at the university and...
The outgoing heads of two institutions have announced plans for closer collaboration. Brenda Gourley, who recently stepped down as vice-chancellor of The Open University, and Bob Cormack, retiring...
Cherie Blair has formally opened the University of East London's Sir John Cass School of Education. The barrister, campaigner and wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair was met by UEL's chair of...
A computer game produced by a University of Portsmouth academic has won a top prize at the IndieCade 2009 International Festival of Independent Games. Dan Pinchbeck, senior lecturer in the School of...
Fundamental medical research will be sped up thanks to pilot centres funded by the Medical Research Council at the universities of Dundee, King's College London, Edinburgh, Nottingham and a...
A university has held an event designed to inspire young black Londoners to aim for the top in the world of education. The second Black to the Future conference at the London School of Economics...
Aspiring theatre-makers, actors, directors and designers stand to benefit from two new courses. Kingston University has teamed up with the Rose Theatre, Kingston, to offer MAs in classical theatre...
A university website that helps to identify wildlife has led to the discovery of a moth that has never been seen before in the UK. When a member of the public posted a photograph of an unusual moth...
A new Tate St Ives exhibition opened on 10 October, overseen by the head of the fine art department at the University of Reading. Alun Rowlands is curator of the Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in...
Student midwives will learn how to respond to unexpected "emergencies" thanks to a new teaching facility. Once a month, midwifery students at London South Bank University will be called into The Real...
Dozens of university staff and students were among the 2,400 people who took part in Antony Gormley's Fourth Plinth art project in Trafalgar Square, London.Several academics opted to spend their hour...
EuropeBologna's wider lessonsThe Bologna Process has applications beyond the borders of Europe, the president of the European Universities Association has said. Speaking at the association's autumn...
Senior managers drive international strategies to equip institutions for global future, writes Phil Baty
When the University of Edinburgh's Grade A-listed Main Library, designed by Sir Basil Spence, was completed in 1967, it was the largest university library in Britain and one of the decade's...