A student has scooped first prize in the British Glove Association's design competition. Eva Pospisilova, a student on the London Metropolitan University-accredited foundation degree in fashion and...
Teacher training programmes at Northumbria University have been rated "outstanding" by Ofsted, the schools inspectorate. Its report states that the university's courses, which train early-years,...
Researchers are aiming to provide better security for mobile-phone banking. A team of informatics and engineering specialists at City University London has received £135,000 from the Government's UK-...
A 1930s-style house built in 2008 as part of a University of Nottingham research project is undergoing the first of three energy-efficiency upgrades. The plan is to convert the energy-inefficient...
A memorandum of understanding has been signed by The Robert Gordon University and Dundee College, committing both institutions to help college students gain access to higher education. The agreement...
James Scudamore, whose novel Heliopolis has been longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize, is returning to the University of East Anglia as a creative writing fellow. Mr Scudamore is a graduate of...
New technology designed to analyse large numbers of marine microbes could lead to more efficient and greener ways to manufacture drugs to treat patients with diseases such as epilepsy, diabetes and...
A European-funded scheme is to help the University of Kent strengthen its links with Chinese partners. The institution is taking part in the Linking Sino-European Universities through Mobility...
Next time you are making a cuppa, it might be wise to opt for white tea if you want to reduce your risk of wrinkles, rheumatoid arthritis and even cancer. Researchers from Kingston University teamed...
A £10 million programme has been launched by the University of Surrey and the National Physical Laboratory to translate the results of research into real-world impact. The collaboration is supported...
Mites may be able to provide vital clues to help crack serious crimes but are being overlooked by forensic scientists. According to Alejandra Perotti, an expert in forensic acarology at the...
A planet that is about twice the size of Jupiter has been discovered by a postgraduate student at Keele University. David Anderson found the planet, named WASP-17, some 1,000 light-years from Earth,...
A Portuguese university is using a UK institution's graduate-medicine scheme as a model for its own courses. In 2000, St George's, University of London was the first university in the UK to introduce...
A partnership agreement has been signed between the University of Northampton and a private university college in Malaysia. Under the agreement, Northampton's School of Applied Sciences will teach...
An academic has called for arthritis and related conditions to receive greater political recognition. Paul Emery, Arthritis Research Campaign professor of rheumatology and head of musculoskeletal...