A professor has given a lecture at the first public reading of a play he recently identified as a long-lost work by William Shakespeare. Brean Hammond, from the University of Nottingham's School of...
A students' union building has reopened following a £5 million renovation. The project at the University of Sheffield has added a number of new spaces and revamped the entrance hall and several cafes...
The first buildings in a £750 million campus extension have opened. The £200 million first phase of the development at the University of York includes new accommodation for the departments of...
A study of the fingers of students on a computer science course has led to the conclusion that technophobia could be linked to hormone levels experienced in the womb. Scientists at the University of...
An incubator jar used by IVF pioneer and Nobel prizewinner Robert Edwards is among items on display in an exhibition to mark 50 years of scientific discovery at a Cambridge college. The exhibition at...
These pictures, which appear to have sprung legs, are among the first to be shown in a new gallery to showcase the talents of Northumbria University graduates. The Fresh Art exhibition at the...
United StatesBudget boostThe California State University has welcomed its first increase in state funding since 2007. The 2010-11 California State budget, signed off by governor Arnold Schwarzenegger...
Students go down to the woods for back-to-basics teaching and learning. Jon Marcus reports
HUMANITIES IN THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA NETWORKThe Hera Network has awarded more than €16 million (£14 million) to 19 transnational collaborative research projects across Europe. Co-funded by the...
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Blowing the whistle on corruption
University of StirlingKathleen JamieKathleen Jamie is a poet in motion as she moves to the University of Stirling to take up a chair in creative writing. Professor Jamie began creative writing while...
Study finds female lecturers bear the brunt but also report it more often. Sarah Cunnane writes
At a time when public finances were in a dire state and much of the country was still badly bomb-damaged, the 1951 Festival of Britain provided a perfect "tonic for the nation".
British universities have embraced "the rhetoric of internationalisation" without understanding the crucial need for languages and inter-cultural awareness, a professor has claimed.Colin Grant, pro...
Cern leader to tell engineers that advances come from fundamental research. Paul Jump reports