Noam Chomsky, emeritus professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has spoken out against the University of Sussex's decision to close its linguistics courses. Professor...
The popular perception that talented footballers are more likely to come from disadvantaged areas is being challenged by a new study. Despite famous examples such as Wayne Rooney and George Best,...
A photographer and course leader at the University of Bolton is using a doctoral research project to challenge perceptions of disability. Terry Speake said his approach was to work closely with the...
Bee behaviour and what it can tell us about the process of ageing in other animals, including humans, is the subject of a joint project by the University of East Anglia and the University of...
Business start-ups in London's Thames Gateway are to be supported with the help of an East End entrepreneur. The Petchey Centre for Entrepreneurship was launched on 25 March at the University of East...
A new research centre will look at ways to improve detection of child abuse to help prevent future cases like that of Baby P. The Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies is a partnership between Kingston...
Northern Ireland's first Cancer Research UK centre has opened at Queen's University Belfast. The centre will research new treatments with fewer side-effects for cancer sufferers, and focus in...
A public lecture by leading Harvard University neuroscientist Alvaro Pascual-Leone marked the opening of a new Centre for Brain Science at the University of Essex. Based in the department of...
Cranfield University has relaunched its masters degree in translational medicine in an attempt to speed the journey from "bench to bedside" - that is, the often very long period it takes before...
Crabs suffer and remember pain, according to new research. The study, by Bob Elwood and Mirjam Appel from Queen's University Belfast, looked at the reactions of hermit crabs to small electric shocks...
Horace Walpole - son of Britain's first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole - bought a modest cottage in Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, in 1747. He doubled its size, added towers and battlements, and...
V-c says staff costs must be cut; UCU blames poor management for crisis. Melanie Newman reports
Plans to deliver 3 per cent surplus were formed before big funding award, writes Melanie Newman
The University and College Union at Heriot-Watt University has accused managers of breaking employment law by warning individual members of staff that they are at risk of compulsory redundancy ahead...
Eighty staff at Thames Valley University have already agreed to leave under a voluntary severance scheme introduced last year, but the university said further savings are required. "A targeted...