An ambition to make Newport the "cultural capital of Wales" via a new contemporary art gallery, a national documentary photography archive and a new £35 million campus, has been unveiled at a...
Farmers in African communities are being encouraged away from traditional "slash and burn" farming in a new approach of planting trees and preserving woodland. Researchers from the University of...
The UK's first Centre of Excellence for Public Health focusing on nutrition and lifestyle has just opened at Queen's University Belfast. The £5 million centre is the first of five that will be...
The ICMA Centre at the University of Reading has launched the UK's first collaborative MSc in investment banking and Islamic finance, to be taught jointly with INCEIF (International Centre for...
A degree in sports public relations will be offered from September at the University of Central Lancashire. Phil Townsend, course validator and director of communications for Manchester United...
Six London universities are to launch a new project that will explore how students, teachers, administrators and researchers can use online collaborative tools to work together. The University of...
An £8.16 million loan used to help set up the University of Lincoln is to be written off. The Project for a University for Lincolnshire Company, a charity that was created to raise funds for the...
The UK's largest space rocket was to be unveiled to the public this week by a Salford academic who plans to send tourists into space by 2013. Steve Bennett, who heads the university's Space...
Scientists at Cranfield University have discovered that small strawberries are not just tastier, they also offer more health benefits than big ones. A study conducted by Cranfield's Plant Science...
The influence of America's Christian Right will mean there will be little change in US foreign policy regardless of whether John McCain or Barack Obama is elected President. This is the view of Lee...
Work has started at the University of Kent on what is billed as the first labyrinth to be situated on an English university campus. The university has commissioned researcher and designer Jeff Saward...
V-c says focus on China and India ignores other collaboration opportunities. John Gill reports
Overseas academic visitors to the UK may be granted leave to remain in the country for only three months under proposals being considered by immigration authorities.Visiting scholars, who may be on...
Australia's earnings from foreign students soar as sector widens catchment sphere. John Gill reports
CanadaMedical researchers to take oathDoctors have the Hippocratic oath, but until now scientists have not had a moral code to which they swear allegiance. That is about to change at the University...