Mick Healey, director of the University of Gloucestershire's Centre for Active Learning, has picked up an award for promoting excellent teaching. He has won the Journal of Geography in Higher...
Astronomers at the University of Portsmouth are to work with the University of Cape Town on a project to help understand the nature of "dark energy", which is causing the universe to expand more...
A stand-up comedian who is also a lecturer at the University of Kent has launched a one-man comedy show on diabetes as part of a "practice-as-research" project. Oliver Double, a senior lecturer in...
A new generation of Turkish computer games programmers are to be trained with help from the University of Abertay Dundee. An agreement has been signed linking a two-year masters degree at Izmir...
Businesses are to be given an opportunity to see the latest engineering research being carried out at the University of Strathclyde. The university's faculty of engineering, Scotland's largest, will...
Leading theologians were due to gather at the University of Aberdeen this week to debate divine providence - the idea that everything that occurs in both nature and history takes place under God's...
A centre billed as the "UK's newest university" opened this week. University Centre Folkestone, a collaboration between Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Greenwich, is...
Hundreds of students have joined forces online to mock a university's new name. The group on social networking site Facebook is titled: "We hate the name Birmingham City University." The institution...
Chimpanzees exhibit socially learnt cultural behaviour previously thought to be unique to humans, scientists at the University of Liverpool have found. In the past, behavioural differences between...
Scientists from Manchester Metropolitan University have identified what they say are the 23 genetic variants that enhance athletic performance.The research, published in The Journal of Physiology,...
Draft 'contract' aims to spell out students' academic obligations, says Melanie Newman
Edge Hill University is facing legal action from about 80 of its academic staff after all employees were moved on to a local contract in 2006.The academics have filed claims for compensation against...
Kenya: Post-poll violence shuts universitiesUniversities in Kenya have postponed their opening dates, fearing that students and academic staff might be caught up in the post-election violence that...
Universities seek more funding to try to keep pace with the global elite, reports John Gill.
Rebuke for criticism of management sparks debate over freedom, writes Melanie Newman.