Red wine may go to your head, but it also helps you to think, according to research carried out at Northumbria University. Tests led by psychologist Emma Wightman found that the red wine extract...
A controversial pilot programme to discover whether lie-detector tests can help to manage sex offenders is being run by Newcastle University. The scheme, under which sex offenders will be made to...
More than £380 million is to be invested in updating the campus at the University of Leeds as it aims to "secure a place among the world's top 50 universities". The investment programme, the biggest...
The first UK masters course dedicated to the study of nuclear fusion is to be offered at the University of York. Its department of physics will offer a fusion energy masters course from October....
Researchers at De Montfort University are attempting to predict which new technologies could become as popular as Facebook and Twitter in the future. The university is leading a EUR1 million (£885,...
Media reports portraying underachieving white working-class boys as victims of discrimination are fuelling a new kind of racial hatred, an academic has warned. David Gillborn, of the Institute of...
A new building will be named after the inventor of a bagless vacuum cleaner. The Royal College of Art has announced that its new fine art block will be called the Dyson Building after the industrial...
Students who help others are also helping themselves, the results of a survey suggest. Research undertaken by Imperial College London's Volunteer Centre shows that volunteering can enhance people's...
The merger of two higher education institutions has resulted in a single institution with a new name. Following the merger of Trinity College, Carmarthen, and the University of Wales Lampeter in...
Indigenous communities are attempting to connect with their cultural history by eating traditional foods, using native languages and moving back to their local environment, according to sociologists...
Some fear offshore growth will slash the numbers coming to the UK to study. Hannah Fearn reports
Ty Crawshay, or the House of Crawshay, was built in the early 19th century for one of Wales' leading industrial families. Today it stands at the heart of the University of Glamorgan's Treforest...
The Open University's Brenda Gourley discusses the institution's future with Melanie Newman
Funding for economics and other related disciplines is being cut just when we need their insights most and are warming to their popularisers, says Jon Adams
The world isn't made of equations - we should keep alert against mathematical seduction, says Michael Bulley