Russell Group response to Hepi report

The University of Birmingham is hoping to extend its excellent academic education to 11-18 year olds in Birmingham and is preparing to submit plans for a new free school to the Department for Education.If approved, the new University of Birmingham School and Sixth Form school will be a mixed ability, co-educational state school for pupils aged 11-16 plus sixth formers. It will be based near to the University's main campus in Edgbaston/Selly Oak and focus on academic rather than vocational subjects in order to prepare pupils for selective universities. The School aims to open in September 2014, taking 150 pupils into Year 7 and 200 into the Sixth Form.

The University will be holding its first Employability Skills Day for students on 16 February 2012.

In this video Dr Beverley Glover explains how a daisy is a collection of tiny flowers grouped together to make it look like a single big flower.

University research secures new Wellcome Trust and NISCHR funding

New study suggests super-drought made it too hostile for any life survive on the Mars' surface - News Release

University of Leeds Language Centre and Languages at LeedsMet University have joined forces again to organise the 2nd Languages Festival, as part of the national 'Speak to the Future' campaign.

Letter from Dr Ros Altmann, LSE governor, in response to an article on the economic downturn . - Financial Times

Wonder material graphene has been touted as the next silicon, with one major problem – it is too conductive to be used in computer chips. Now scientists from The University of Manchester have given its prospects a new lifeline.

Manipulating the soil in urban and industrial areas in order to capture more carbon from the atmosphere is the “best resource we have to begin to mitigate human CO2 emissions”, experts claim.

Tuberculosis patients may receive treatments in the future according to what version they have of a single 'Goldilocks' gene, says an international research team from Oxford University, King’s College London, Vietnam and the USA.

The University of Sheffield has today (3 February 2012) announced the new spring concert season which commences this month organised by the Department of Music. Highlights this season include a series ...

All next week (6-10 February), the University of Southampton is showcasing how its research is helping to solve some of today’s big global issues such as climate change, energy, the ageing population, high-tech crime and lifestyle diseases.

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Volunteering Services Unit at UCL, the Wilkins South Cloisters is currently home to an exhibition of photographs showing some of the vast number of volunteering projects UCL students have been involved with over the last decade.