A deal between video-sharing website YouTube and Coventry University has been agreed to allow the university to promote itself online. The university said it was one of the first in the UK to enter a...
A capital development programme at Edge Hill University has secured a £30 million agreement with a major bank. Barclays has signed a deal to fund half of the £60 million building plan at its Ormskirk...
Small and medium-sized businesses have been advised to increase their spend on marketing to help steer themselves through the worst of the economic downturn. Two surveys conducted by the Small...
"Anthropology and development" days will be delivered in schools across the UK by Durham University postgraduates in a bid to raise awareness of the discipline among secondary-school pupils. They...
Animators and illustrators are set to join forces with neurologists and geneticists to help launch an annual national drawing festival. Scientists from University College London and Queen Mary,...
An overseas school for gifted youth is to be hosted by the University of Warwick this year, it has been announced. The winter school, which will last a week and a half, will take place in December in...
A man found dead in a storeroom at a University of Gloucestershire campus died from an overdose of opiates and alcohol, an inquest has heard. A cleaner found the body of Ian Lockey, 43, at the...
The Abu Dhabi Government and business community is to receive executive training and research support through a London university's commercial arm. LSE Enterprise, a wholly owned subsidiary of the...
Nine year-old piano prodigy Marc Yu gave a concert at the University of East London to celebrate his acceptance of the first ever Genius Scholarship Award, a new annual prize established by the...
Academic experts in engineering, chemistry, architecture, physics and economics gathered at the University of Bath last week to discuss how they could tackle climate change together. The researchers...
The board of trustees at Liverpool John Moores University - which included Everton Football Club life president Sir Philip Carter and Phil Redmond, creator of Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks -...
A doctorate from the fictional "Unseen University" has been handed to the vice-chancellor of Buckinghamshire New University by author Terry Pratchett. Mr Pratchett received his own honorary doctorate...
The University of Teesside's new digital TV and sound studio has been put to good use by Das Wanderlust, a band based in the Tees Valley. The £750,000 studio, a collaboration between the university's...
The MRC has awarded £10.6 million to projects to develop better models of human disease, including diabetes, stroke, heart disease and age-related macular degeneration. Twenty research groups will...
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