Scientists talk to the public out of a positive sense of civic responsibility, according to new research published in the journal Science Communication.Researchers at the universities of Manchester...
A postgraduate Medical Institute has been launched at Anglia Ruskin University. The institute, led by medical academics in partnership with 11 NHS trusts from around the east of England, is intended...
New research into the social bookmarking site del.icio.us has been launched at the University of East Anglia. The project will encourage undergraduates to use the site to improve their research and...
A ten-year multidisciplinary global programme will examine challenges facing resource-rich economies and trade relations between the Gulf states. The Kuwait Programme on Development, Governance and...
Academics at York St John University are helping researchers at the University of Bahrain become better teachers. York St John lecturers have been flying to Bahrain three times a year to deliver...
Thousands of letters written by the poet Philip Larkin have been deposited at the University of Hull's archives by his niece. The letters, sent to his mother and close relations, have never been seen...
Wales's only university-based community radio station is now broadcasting around the clock. Calon FM at North East Wales Institute of Higher Education (NEWI), which was last year awarded a five-year...
Jim Knight, the Schools Minister, has signed a funding agreement for a new City of London academy. It gives the go-ahead for Islington Green School to be redeveloped to create the City of London...
The first-ever advert broadcast into space will be made with the help of the University of Leicester. The advert for Doritos corn chips, currently the subject of a public competition, will be...
Female members of staff at a research-intensive university are being offered support from three new "faculty ambassadors". Imperial College London's Academic Opportunities Committee, which aims to...
Malcolm Wicks, the Energy Minister, has launched a renewable energy initiative at the University of East London. UEL has teamed up with solar energy company Solarcentury to install photovoltaic...
The Centre for Vision Science has been boosted by grants of more than £500,000 from three charities to investigate the leading causes of blindness in the UK. Over the next three years, a team of...
One of the most extensive and important 20th-century theatre design archives has a new home at Wimbledon College of Art. The relocation of the archives of Jocelyn Herbert will allow students access...
Greater contract flexibility and a switch to low-cost programmes mooted. Melanie Newman reports
One government department is at loggerheads with another over cuts in funding for students studying second degrees, it emerged this week.Correspondence leaked to Times Higher Education reveals that...