A centre for astrophysics has won £1 million in funding to support research and teaching. Gordon Bromage, head of the centre at the University of Central Lancashire, said the money from the Science...
An annual croquet tournament between York and Lancaster universities reached a nail-biting climax. The Roses Tournament was won by York by a score of 124 to 122, with the universities' chancellors...
A course to help people set up new types of church has been accredited by the University of Cumbria. The one-year part-time course run by Fresh Expressions, an initiative set up by the Archbishops of...
The ghost of a 19th-century anatomy professor who profoundly influenced UK medical education will appear at the only Scottish institution taking part in the Europe-wide "Night at the Museum" on 17...
The UK has to prepare for more flooding over the next few decades, according to an academic based at a new research centre. Stuart Lane, from Durham University's Institute of Hazard and Risk, said...
The Campaign to Protect Rural England has branded the University of York's multimillion-pound expansion project as one of the UK's worst examples of building on green-belt land. The East Heslington...
The next generation of low-cost light sources has emerged - and they can match any colour of the rainbow. Physicists Ifor Samuel and Graham Turnbull at the University of St Andrews have developed the...
Children of Gurkhas who have attended school in the UK will now be accepted as home students at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, paying fees of only £3,000. There has been growing concern...
Kingston University is facing an outbreak of mumps, with 20 suspected cases reported in the past month and five students diagnosed with the highly contagious virus. More cases at the university are...
A stressed university lecturer turned to drink and died after an overdose of painkillers, an inquest heard. Colin Robinson had only just started work at the University of Central Lancashire's...
Tomatoes can fight the sun's damaging effects on the skin, a team from Manchester and Newcastle universities has found.The researchers said that people who ate tomato paste in the study got some...
Dropouts and cuts won't change Bolton's entrance policy, George Holmes tells Melanie Newman
Large pre-1992 institutions on UK mainland make most money abroad, says study. John Gill reports
Hundreds of Cambridge academics and students crowded into Senate House this week to be given a broad sweep of Oxbridge history, the gospel according to Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, the first Oxford...
Student satisfactionUK accommodation 'poor value'Almost half of UK university students are unhappy with the cost of their lodgings, a survey has found. Value for money was "important" to 93 per cent...