The academic integrity of students will be the focus of a University of York campaign. Led by York's Students' Union, the campaign's aim is to build up students' confidence about referencing material...
The wheat yield of British farmers may be improved thanks to a £1.7 million research project at the University of Liverpool. Scientists have been awarded funding to decode the genome of wheat, a crop...
The University of Sheffield has launched a centre to study issues of media freedom and standards in the UK and farther afield. The Centre for Freedom of the Media, part of the university's department...
More than 180 new places for postgraduate study have been created at the University of Exeter, at a cost of more than £7 million. From the autumn, 100 fully funded studentships will be available....
Researchers at the University of Portsmouth are taking part in a project to preserve rapidly vanishing technology and cultural information about the first digital-age generation. The team is helping...
A public inquiry into whether the University of the West of England will be allowed to build its Swindon campus on a beauty spot, Coate Water, is under way. The local branch of environmental campaign...
Wigan Warriors Rugby League Club has signed a two-year sponsorship deal with the University of Central Lancashire for the 2009 and 2010 Super League seasons. The university will help the Warriors...
An innovative research system that calculates the effect of tax and social-security benefits across Europe has been awarded EUR4.5 million (£4.03 million). The Euromod system, hosted by the Institute...
Paul Cartledge has taken up Cambridge's first new Classics chair for decades, and is keen on a spot of iconoclasm
Janet Beer, vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, has been elected chair of the University Alliance, the collection of pre- and post-1992 universities that are not members of the sector's...
Neil Turok, who left Cambridge for Canada, tells John Gill what ails British science and universities
AustraliaInstitutions on the city limitsAbout 20 new out-of-town teaching universities will be needed to hit tough targets for higher student enrolment set by the Government's Review of Australian...
Controversy after university parts ways with a questioner of climate change. John Gill reports
As the global economic crisis continues apace, Harvard University has announced that it will axe one in four staff from the company that manages its endowment fund.About 50 jobs in total are set to...
Digital materials pose problems for archivists, but, Zoë Corbyn learns, they are meeting the challenge