The North West Regional Development Agency has awarded more than £750,000 to Lancashire Business School, part of the University of Central Lancashire, to help small businesses across the region. The...
Staff and students are growing their own food on 50 gardening plots across a university campus. The project at the University of Portsmouth is linked to the city's Healthy Cities Initiative and is...
A university campus has been chosen to host the British Paralympic team's preparations in the build-up to the London 2012 Paralympic Games. ParalympicsGB's athletes, coaches and support staff will...
A volcanologist has been selected to join a team of internationally renowned scientists on a two-month expedition drilling into one of the oldest sea-floor areas in the planet. Mike Widdowson,...
A university is piloting a physics degree that aims to make learning more relevant to real life and students more attractive to employers. The University of Salford is working with the Institute of...
Taxpayers' money should be used to stimulate innovation rather than bailing out dying industries, according to a Kingston University report for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. An...
A centre of education research has been invited to join the 1994 Group of smaller research-intensive universities. The Institute of Education, University of London will formally join the group on 1...
Leading scientists and policy-makers have taken part in a symposium that will help to map out the future for large-scale research infrastructure in Europe. Major facilities such as Cern, the world's...
A training scheme to help people hit by the recession has been launched by Leeds Metropolitan University. Leeds Met Business Start-up is offering free training and support to individuals looking to...
Researchers have discovered a new way of killing cancer cells that could lead to revolutionary treatments for the disease. Researchers at the universities of Manchester and Southampton teamed up to...
An award has identified the greenest campus in the country. The University of Nottingham has received a Green Flag Award, which recognises recreational areas and community spaces that demonstrate...
They say that once you have learnt to ride a bicycle you never forget - and now neuroscientists at the University of Aberdeen have discovered why. Research published this month has identified a nerve...
Grievance began with allegations of confidential files being accessed. Melanie Newman reports
James Wyatt's Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford is a major monument of English neoclassicism. Inspired by the Tower of the Winds in Athens, with huge windows specially designed for telescopes, it was...
A stand-alone space agency should be set up in the UK whether or not there is significant new funding for such a project, a leading astrophysicist has said.The Government has launched a consultation...