Athletes studying in Scotland will be able to combine academic studies with a rigorous training schedule following the launch of a sports scholarship programme. A total of £20,000 will be invested by...
Ten million people have visited a university website to access free course material since it opened three years ago. The Open University said its OpenLearn site had resulted in 13,000 course...
A Holocaust survivor's dramatic account of Nazi persecution was to feature in Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations at the University of Sussex on January. Freddie Knoller was set to talk about his...
The lives of young people growing up in Newham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest are revealed in a new book. Anthony Gunter, senior lecturer in criminology and criminal justice at the...
Plans for a school of engineering at the University of Lincoln have received a boost in the form of more than £3 million in funding from the East Midlands Development Agency. The money is in addition...
Previously forgotten interviews with Glaswegians about their lives in the early 20th century will bring the past to life at Scottish museums. Arthur McIvor, director of the Scottish Oral History...
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has opened a newly restored square in the heart of the capital. The £160 million investment by Imperial College London in Prince's Gardens, South Kensington, has...
A haunting image of a woman on the shores of the Yamuna River in Agra, India, has won first prize in a university photography competition. The annual westPHOTO competition is open to University of...
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE REPLACEMENT, REFINEMENT AND REDUCTION OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCHThe NC3Rs has awarded its first PhD studentships to five early-career scientists within UK institutions as part of...
A collaborative strategy shows that universities are ready to tackle climate change, argues Sir Alan Langlands
Geoff Lucas describes independent schools' concerns that some efforts to widen access are politicised, unclear and unfit for purpose
Just as universities are having to adjust funding models, so they must drop old assumptions about what they should offer and how to deliver it, argues Mike Boxall
This week's Holocaust Memorial Day serves as a timely rebuke against race-hate activism, says Dan Cohn-Sherbok
In these technological times, it may come as a surprise that the most popular method of cheating among students is scrawling notes on their arms before exams. The enduring popularity of the ruse was...
Major Hefce study also shows that the gender divide is closing. Rebecca Attwood reports