Staff at Oxford Brookes University who failed to make it into work as a result of the recent snow may lose annual leave. But the University and College Union said local police advised people not to...
Why are there things that we still cannot explain? A team of philosophers at the University of Hertfordshire is conducting a three-year research project to explore experiences that science currently...
Business students in India can now receive a British and Indian degree thanks to a deal struck by the University of Bedfordshire and the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University...
The correspondence of pioneering explorer and naturalist Sir Joseph Banks is to be housed in an archive at Nottingham Trent University. It includes personal accounts of Banks' expedition with Captain...
The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, has opened Paragon House, an award-winning new building at Thames Valley University's Brentford campus that includes student accommodation and...
A £500,000 windfall from the recent VAT cut will be spent by Staffordshire University on a scheme to help the unemployed and local firms. The university said the money would help to pay for training...
Graduates from a London art and design college enjoyed a place at the Oscars. Animation duo Adam Foulkes and Alan Smith, graduates of the Royal College of Art's animation department, were shortlisted...
Pet cats could be responsible for killing up to 10,000 prey animals per sq km in urban areas, significantly affecting urban bird species. Researchers at the University of Reading are looking beyond...
The University of Plymouth has said that no academics will face compulsory redundancy as part of its cost-cutting drive. The university is looking to shed 223 jobs - about 6.5 per cent of its...
Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow will speak at Northumbria University on how a rapidly changing world and new technologies are affecting the way television reports the news. Describing his lecture, Mr...
A vaccine to protect farmed salmon against viral and bacterial infections is being developed at the University of Aberdeen. "Understanding the key stages of fish and their immune systems is...
The names of five new schools at Birkbeck, University of London, have been decided after almost a year of debate. They are: the School of Law; the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy;...
From Jane Austen to Charles Dickens, adaptations of literary classics have always been a mainstay of cinema and television programming. Now a centre has been set up at De Montfort University to study...
The life history of the naked mole rat is among the records of more than 4,000 animal species that have been included in an online database at the University of Liverpool. The database, which is the...
Fairer or fouler? Views vary on a proposed update to long-established code, writes Melanie Newman