The skills involved in translating foreign-language films will be taught on a new course launched by City University London. The part-time MA in audiovisual translation, which is starting this autumn...
A theatre company set up by the University of Winchester has received an international award for its work with prisoners. The university has been awarded a MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship by...
A poet working at Bangor University is one of ten writers to have been long-listed for the English section of the Wales Book of the Year 2009 award. Zoe Skoulding has been included on the list for...
Margaret Thatcher's legacy will be explored by experts in media and culture at a special colloquium organised by the Gender and Culture Research Group at the University of the West of England."The...
Dawn Primarolo, the Minister for Public Health, has opened a £4 million fertility unit in London. The assisted conception unit, a joint collaboration between King's College London and Guy's and St...
Research into practices in Jacobean theatre by Martin White, professor of theatre at the University of Bristol, is featured on an interactive DVD. The disc was created by Ignition Films as an...
Ian Stewart is being honoured for his work promoting maths and sharing his passion for it with the public. Hannah Fearn reports
United StatesBonds ... Stanford bondsTop US universities are "selling debt" in a bid to shore up their recession-hit finances. Stanford University has become the latest leading institution to sell...
Nigeria intends to join the international elite within a decade. Phil Baty reports from Abuja
Does the success of 'Adam' herald a future of automated research? asks Jesse Whittock
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILSix new research fellows in the creative and performing arts will share more than £1.4 million in funding from the AHRC. These fellowships - each worth more than £...
Carolyn Fowler, Durham University's first female registrar, plans to bridge the divide between academics and administrators
Choreographer Emilyn Claid has been made a professor by University College Falmouth. As associate field director and senior lecturer of choreography at Falmouth, Professor Claid has worked with...
David Robinson says Canada has much to teach us about the commercial imperative in academia and its dangers
Higher education standards are in the spotlight, but investigation has found no evidence of serious deficiencies, says Colin Riordan