Cows from organic farms produce better quality milk than those from conventional farms, a Newcastle University study indicates. The research found that milk provided by cows fed an organic diet had...
A business school in India has established links with a London university that will allow staff and student exchanges and new academic collaborations. The partnership between the Institute of...
The Albert Sloman Library at the University of Essex marked a milestone when its 1-millionth book - Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings - was added to its shelves. Colin...
A new masters degree in publishing, focusing on the industry in the digital age, has been launched by Anglia Ruskin University. The qualification, aimed at existing publishing professionals and those...
A university is piloting software designed to reduce the carbon footprint of its 2,500 PCs while cutting its energy costs by 40 per cent. Steve McLeod, senior information specialist at the University...
A degree course that aims to combat the violence suffered by healthcare professionals has been launched by the University of Glamorgan's faculty of health, sport and science. The BSc hons in...
Richard Rockefeller, a practising doctor and great-grandson of the industrialist John D. Rockefeller, has opened the £3 million Paul O'Gorman Leukaemia Research Centre at the University of Glasgow....
The Irish television series Father Ted, the Carry On films and Britons' inability to understand Finnish humour were among the topics due to be discussed at an international conference at the...
Nottingham MP Alan Simpson joined University of Nottingham students and staff in a protest against the deportation of Hicham Yezza, a university administrator who was detained under the Terrorism Act...
Product focus stifles knowledge transmission to commercial world, says CIHE. Hannah Fearn writes
The head of the Arts and Humanities Research Council has hit out at the skills agenda, warning that universities are being diverted into delivering "narrow competencies".Speaking at seminar last week...
Public-private collaboration to offer pre-university courses to overseas students. Olga Wojtas reports
The ideas of Charles Darwin are slowly taking hold in America. Very slowly. A survey of 2,100 college students, taken at 40 campuses, shows that although the majority believe in the scientific theory...
Higher Education Founding CouncilReport flags fiscal challengesThe university sector is in for a rocky road because of the UK's faltering economy, the chief executive of the Higher Education Funding...
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILDetails of the 12 projects to be funded under the Sustainable Agriculture Research for International Development (SARID) intitiative with the...