The Prime Minister last week presided over the opening of the first academic institute in the world to focus specifically on palliative care research and teaching. The Cicely Saunders Institute of...
The science of embalming bodies and other skills key to the mortuary profession are to be taught in a new foundation degree, the first of its kind in the UK. The mortuary science degree launched by...
A new course designed to encourage students to broaden the focus of their learning beyond purely academic study has been launched by Queen Mary, University of London. The Drapers' Skills Award for...
Andrew Motion, the poet laureate, along with Booker and Turner prizewinners, will be among the glitterati attending a week-long cultural festival at De Montfort University from 25 to 29 February. The...
A £1.1 million research centre to explore the technology needed to capture and store carbon dioxide permanently in the ground opened last week at the University of Nottingham. The Centre for...
A £9.6 million grant will bring young science stars to two Midlands universities. The money, awarded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England from its strategic development fund, has gone...
The Duchess of Cornwall has opened a new centre focusing on podiatry, physiotherapy, complementary medicine and sports science. The Centre for Clinical Education, based at the University of East...
Twenty lecturers are to be made redundant at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. All teaching staff have been asked to consider voluntary redundancy in a bid to save £600,000 a year, but...
The famous 15-year-old dolphin logo has been scrapped by the University of Southampton after a rebranding exercise costing £160,000. "Although the attributes of friendliness and intelligence as...
A researcher has launched a £4.5 million project to track the lives of 400 ordinary people for five years.The Timescapes project, which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, will...
Key problem is the lack of a link between education and earnings, World Banks says. John Gill reports.
A change of academic leadership has been instigated at Birmingham City University.The institution is reorganising from seven to six academic faculties, but only two of the original seven faculty...
CHINA: DISTANCE-LEARNING SOARS AHEADThe number of Chinese students awarded degree-level qualifications through long-distance programmes in the past three years has topped 6 million. Education...
Report identifies bureaucratic 'craze' that fails academics and students, writes Melanie Newman.
Books are cumbersome, expensive and their format dated, publishers hear. Rebecca Attwood reports.