The study of ophthalmics, the oral and aural sciences and medical technologies including radiography. More...
University guide 2019: league table for sports science
The scientific study of exercise, health and sport. More...
University guide 2019: league table for veterinary science
The study of the diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury in animals, welfare, public health and pharmaceuticals. More...
Nottingham Trent leapfrogs city rival in university league table
Former polytechnic beats prestigious neighbour, while Cambridge retains top spot. More...
Why thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal
Academics share machine-learning research freely. Taxpayers should not have to pay twice to read our findings. More...
University guide 2019: league table for agriculture, forestry & food
The study of land-based industries, such as farming, countryside management and animal rearing - includes agriculture, forestry, food and beverage studies. More...
Oxford and Cambridge university colleges hold £21bn in riches
Britain’s ancient universities of Oxford and Cambridge have access to a staggering pool of wealth totalling almost £21bn, analysis by the Guardian has revealed. More...
The Guardian view on digitising culture: make manuscripts more illuminating
We live in an age of instant images and memes, when 10,000 copies of a picture can be flung around the world in seconds by sliding a finger half an inch across a phone screen. This would have been unbelievable 20 years ago and impossible even to imagine 20 years before that. Go back 1,000 years, and it would have been sorcery. But it is in the world of hand-copied manuscripts 1,000 years old or more that the digital revolution has had some of its most profound and unambiguously beneficial effects. More...
Students are at breaking point in a broken system
I too have a daughter who, though creative and gifted, cannot do squiggles on paper, has spent 12 years of her life learning that she’s “thick” and “useless” and is about to sit – and likely fail – her GCSE maths for the third time. More...