Robert Pearce has left his job as vice-chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter. Professor Pearce was appointed vice-chancellor in October 2003. He is understood to have been on sick leave...
An employment tribunal's decision that Bournemouth University unfairly dismissed a professor - who resigned in protest after managers overruled his decision to fail his students - will be subject to...
Young men say they want more children when they are contemplating death, according to a study by researchers at the London School of Economics. The authors of "Life after Death", a paper published...
Is God a delusion? Is lying always wrong or violence ever justifiable? Could you know if the universe had doubled in size overnight? And should arguments always be reasonable? These are just some of...
Some 7,000 more people would have died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks had the World Trade Center been fully occupied, a study has found. Academics at the universities of Greenwich,...
Murderers and terrorists can be unmasked by the way they write documents and text messages, an academic told the British Association for the Advancement of Science festival last week. Tim Grant,...
A £9 million dental outreach centre, which will train 80 dental students a year, will open in 2010. The centre is a partnership between the University of Portsmouth and King's College London's Dental...
Schools around the country will be able to run Saturday workshops in the performing arts under a new franchising operation from the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. The institute said this...
Archaeologists have enlisted engineers to help them resolve unanswered questions about the 1746 Battle of Culloden. Tony Pollard, director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at the University...
Very premature children are four times more likely to have behavioural disorders compared with their peers, researchers have found. The group, from the universities of Warwick and Nottingham, found...
Designs for two new buildings at Coventry University went on show to the public at a city council meeting last week. The new engineering and computing building and the Student Enterprise Centre are...
A public-health biologist is alerting the public to the dangers of wasp stings and warning that the recent bad weather is no reason to let your guard down. Sue McBean of the University of Ulster's...
Could knitting help stave off depression and dementia and give those who do it the serenity of Buddhist monks? There is strong anecdotal evidence of the benefits of knitting, but psychologists at...
Paralympic coach Ross Hall explains the psychological side of wheelchair rugby - known as 'murderball' - to Olga Wojtas
The University of Cambridge's Keith Straughan has opted for a move away from the traditional higher education system in favour of working in the new University Centre in Milton Keynes (UCMK) - a...