A university has signed a £10 million knowledge-transfer deal with a national laboratory. The collaboration between the University of Surrey and the National Physical Laboratory will focus on...
A European masters degree in basketball coaching has been launched. The University of Worcester's partnership with the Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education will involve teaching in both Worcester...
A fully functioning microbrewery is to be built on a university campus. The £2 million facility at the University of Nottingham will be used for teaching and research in brewing science. The...
An international team of scientists has concluded a four-year effort to agree on a "plant DNA barcode". The code will provide the foundation for use of DNA technologies to identify plants. Academics...
Sleep deprivation, dirt and a craving for unhealthy food are some of the things one expects to experience at a music festival. But visitors to the Secret Garden Party in Cambridgeshire last month...
Scientists from the UK are to work with universities in Africa to strengthen research into science and health on the continent. The University of Liverpool and its Liverpool School of Tropical...
A new centre will allow members of the Royal Navy to take advanced academic degrees and pursue research. The Centre of Excellence in Naval Oceanographic Research and Education, at the University of...
Experts at the University of Cambridge's Language Centre are giving their support to a national programme aimed at motivating young people to study languages. The centre is a partner in the Open...
The University of Gloucestershire's Centre for Active Learning in Cheltenham was designed to embrace a philosophy of collaboration between students and staff.A consultation process in 2003-04 led to...
Professor faced multiple charges for material vital to undergraduate texts, writes Melanie Newman
Frontline academics must find common ground with generals, says paper. Hannah Fearn reports
Directors of university knowledge-transfer offices earn as much as leading professors, a study has revealed.Researchers at Kingston University have carried out the first survey of pay and incentives...
Barack Obama displayed his everyman touch when he moved to defuse an escalating race row by inviting a black professor and a white police officer for a beer at the White House. Henry Louis Gates Jr,...
University denies claim in BDO report that decisions were made recklessly. Melanie Newman reports
Degrees in social work are viewed as being "difficult to fail" - a reputation that is unacceptable, a select committee of MPs has said.The Children, Schools and Families Committee said that witnesses...