Simon Lee, vice-chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University, has suggested that the institution change its name to include the word "Carnegie". Professor Lee believes introducing the name, which is...
One of the greatest pilots in aviation history is to get an honorary degree from his alma mater. Eric Brown, born in 1919, learnt to fly as a student at the University of Edinburgh and was on an...
A £1.8 million government contract has been awarded to Edge Hill University to run a national training programme for primary school teachers. The money from the Department for Children, Schools and...
A group of chemists is beginning a feasibility study into a "super-leaf" that could be used as an innovative and cost-effective solar technology. Peter Holliman is leading the Bangor University team...
An agreement has been struck that will allow Staffordshire University to run "Bafta-branded" lectures, workshops, masterclasses and seminars. The deal between the university and the British Academy...
They spend ages in isolation, looking for things never seen before while their relatives wonder why they do it. That may sound like a description of many academics, but these solitary souls are the...
Fuel shortages, arguments over tolls to cross the Firth of Forth, binge drinking, the credit crunch and the sensitive subject of MPs' expenses - Scottish politicians were debating them all in the...
Multimillion-pound animal science and nutrition research facilities at the Centre for Dairy Research have opened at the University of Reading. The centre is one of only three in the European Union to...
The £600,000 hub of a national network of excellence supporting elite student athletes will be based at the University of Stirling, the Scottish Funding Council has announced. It will help create...
A degree in music video production will be a first for the UK. The BSc course, currently in the process of being validated, is to be launched by the University of Bolton and the Manchester School of...
Couples in mixed Protestant-Catholic relationships in Northern Ireland tend to be more educated and to have higher incomes than those in traditional relationships, according to research from the...
The birthplace of Dennis the Menace and Minnie the Minx will host the second international comic conference next month. Dundee's history is inextricably linked with the DC Thomson empire that...
An academic is to travel to the Eurovision Song Contest as an expert commentator. Phil Jackson, a senior lecturer in media at Edge Hill University, has been selected by the BBC to attend the contest...
Emma Henley, a student at Newport School of Art, Media and Design, will show a series of self-portraits entitled Newport Bus Station at the school's annual graduate show, which starts next week at...
A professor who has helped develop technology allowing law students to act on behalf of "virtual" clients is among this year's batch of ÌÇÐÄVlog Academy senior fellows.Students of Paul Maharg...