A college and a London university are linking up to create a new "university centre" in Croydon. London Metropolitan University has been Croydon College's validating body for higher education courses...
Out-of-body experiences are to be documented in a study at the University of Birmingham. Jason Braithwaite, a cognitive psychologist from the Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre, is seeking...
A £1 million investment in upgrading its dairy farm will help the University of Liverpool support farm-animal veterinary education. The university has sunk the money into its Leahurst veterinary...
HRH The Princess Royal has opened new halls of residence in her capacity as chancellor of the University of London. The halls, at Royal Holloway, University of London, are named Williamson, Butler...
Fast-moving wind turbines can trigger seizures in people sensitive to flickering light. To avoid inducing attacks, turbines should have no more than three blades and rotate no faster than 60 times a...
Scientists are investigating how one of the chemicals in plant fertiliser may have kick-started life on Earth. A £500,000 project at the University of Leeds, funded by the Engineering and Physical...
Humans are almost four times more likely to share diseases and viruses with chimpanzees than with monkeys, to which they are less closely related, according to researchers at the University of...
A PhD student has discovered a species of shrew in Ireland that was not previously thought to be native to the country. Dave Tosh has been studying the diet of the barn owl as part of his research in...
Terje Stolsmo, a design student at the University of Teesside, was inspired to create a new shape of wine cooler unit after friends working as wine waiters in his native Norway described the square...
Anton Muscatelli is confident that the case for more funding will win over the Government, says Olga Wojtas
The Royal Scottish Academy for Music and Drama may have to make compulsory redundancies to meet a £600,000 budget shortfall in the coming year.The conservatoire, whose alumni include Dr Who actor...
Wales Higher Education Funding CouncilPrincipality lags behind on fundsState funding for Welsh universities is falling further behind England, a report from Wales's higher education funding body has...
The Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index and similar publications have transformed the rules of the game. In the old days scholars scanned the references in journals in the hope...
Universities are having to devote more resources to meeting FoI demands, reports John Gill
Erotic fiction is not just for entertainment, it can also serve as a study of female sexuality, believes Mitzi Szereto