St George's, University of London and Royal Holloway, University of London have announced plans to merge. The two institutions said the decision would combine the competitive excellence of the two...
Circus jugglers, railway track testers and T-shirt makers were among the young entrepreneurs exhibiting at a trade show at the University of Derby last week. Open for Business brought together...
Artist Henrik Schrat has welcomed new students to the University of Essex's Colchester site by painting a series of murals around the campus. The silhouette images form part of Schrat's exhibition,...
A drive to raise £2 million for a new scholarship endowment fund has been launched by the University of Northampton.The fundraising push began with a reception for potential benefactors, who were...
The wasted talent of thousands of would-be jockeys has prompted a researcher at the University of Warwick to help set up a new foundation degree for the racing industry. Deborah Butler, a...
A computer system that can detect guilt is being developed by a team at the universities of Bradford and Aberystwyth. The research is part of a £500,000 project to develop technologies to aid border-...
An unusual material hailed as an "invisibility cloak" when it was invented may help to improve sea defences, researchers believe. Mathematicians at the University of Liverpool are testing...
A study of fridges belonging to first-year undergraduates suggests that food safety is not a priority among new students. The study by Bournemouth University found evidence of over-packing in 92 per...
IndiaInnovation is key, summit told"Innovate or perish" was the tough message to higher education institutions at a summit held in Bangalore recently. R. Natarajan, former chairman of the All India...
Neither McCain or Obama can afford to ignore the concern about university costs, says Jon Marcus
Former NUS president Gemma Tumelty remains focused on modern universities with a public affairs role at Million+
A former adviser to the World Health Organisation, Don Nutbeam, has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton. Currently academic provost at the University of Sydney, he will...
An Anglican academic is urging the party to discard the Thatcher legacy, writes Melanie Newman
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Scottish Supa alliance aims to bring new breadth to postgraduate research. Olga Wojtas reports