This book will do much to confirm the beliefs of those of a convinced antireligious persuasion. Every chapter is full of gruesome stories of children dying, often in great pain, as a result of...
It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place," says the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, a fitting metaphor for this book about organisational competition,...
J = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Holy MotherhoodBy Elizabeth L'Estrange, post-doctoral researcher in history of art, University of LiegeManchester University Press, £60.00. ISBN...
Keith Tester goes in search of a 'more humane material life'
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson, specialist in Romantic literature and biography, formerly of the University of Reading. Faber, £18.99, ISBN 9780571230471"Perhaps exhausted by the...
A psychology lecturer sacked by her university for working part-time at an NHS trust has lost her case for unfair dismissal. Zoubida Guernina practised as a psychologist one day per week for the NHS...
The boards of governors of University College Falmouth and Dartington College of Arts have confirmed that the two institutions will merge in April. The controversial merger will mean that Dartington...
An MA in Hollywood studies is to be launched by the University of Nottingham this October. The course, which the university says is the first of its kind in Britain, examines the role of Hollywood in...
A study of 3.6 million patient records held by GPs has found evidence that tens of thousands of people may be suffering from undiagnosed diabetes. A University of Warwick research team surveyed 480...
A team of researchers have been awarded more than £450,000 by Cancer Research UK to investigate a new way of preventing the division and growth of tumour cells. The team at the University of Bath,...
Mushrooms are being used by scientists to create a new microstructure that could replace fat in foods such as mayonnaise and margarine. The team from the University of Birmingham's Centre for...
Criminology and cancer will be among the diverse range of subjects studied at a new Postgraduate Statistics Centre at Lancaster University. The newly opened facility, one of 74 centres for excellence...
Student entrepreneurs will benefit from a new enterprise centre at Coventry University. The centre, which opened last week, will have a business support unit and office space as well as offering...
Seaweed and crab shell are being used by scientists to create a new material for dressing wounds to help accelerate healing. A team from the University of Bolton are developing a new medical textile...
Two academics from the University of Northampton's Business School are studying the extent of "techno-addiction" in the UK. The research is being led by Nada Kakabadse, a professor in management and...