Artistic expression can help people suffering from mental illnesses to recover, according to research carried out by Anglia Ruskin University and the South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust....
A postgraduate course created to develop professional economists of the future has become the first in Britain to be formally recommended by the Government Economic Service, the country's largest...
Work by a masters student in animation will this week challenge some of the world's best modern animated films, including The Golden Compass, Transformers and Kung Fu Panda, at the SIGGRAPH 2008...
The foreign policy of US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will be almost identical to that of George W. Bush, according to a leading American foreign policy analyst based at the...
A programme in sustainable business at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels has been launched by Lancashire Business School, based at the University of Central Lancashire. The courses, to be...
INTO, the private provider of English-language and pre-university courses, is in "early discussions" over a deal with Goldsmiths, University of London. In a statement on its website, Goldsmiths says...
Female refugee academics will be offered mentoring and the chance to develop their skills via a new project at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Three or four female academic refugees will...
An academic whose mind is usually focused on the distant realms of outer space has found himself an unexpected niche as an adviser on extraterrestrial humour. Chris Welch, a principal lecturer from...
Another milestone in the journey towards a university for Scotland's Highlands and islands has been passed, with UHI Millennium Institute empowered to award its own taught degrees from this month....
A new School of Health and Medicine has been opened by Lancaster University, with academic divisions in medicine, health research and biomedical and life sciences. The university said the school was...
The "automatic imitation" effect, whereby humans imitate friends, relatives or a colleague without even realising it, is also present in budgerigars, research from the University of Nottingham...
A Freedom of Information request for information on the height "or estimate thereof" of every building "owned by any college associated with" the University of Cambridge, "and any other building...
A campaign to reduce the number of buses using Oxford High Street is being backed by the University of Oxford's colleges. The colleges fear that pollution and vibrations are damaging historic college...
The lecturers' trade union has claimed that arts and social sciences at the University of Edinburgh are in "crisis".David Bleiman, assistant general secretary of the University and College Union...
Petition calls on Government to end restrictions on academic freedoms, writes Melanie Newman