One of the country's best known literary figures is to become a professor of creative writing at The University of Manchester.

A study examining children's schooling in Andhra Pradesh, India, has revealed a dramatic rise in the number of parents opting for fee-paying private schools over state-funded government schools.

Professor Stewart will be the figurehead for the Devon Children’s University, which will offer youngsters aged 7-14 a wide-range of learning opportunities outside of school hours, right across the county.

The time diaries of working age men and women in the UK reveal that women in the 2000s who went to college or university spent more time doing paid work and did less housework compared with similarly educated women in the 1970s.

Imaginative ideas designed to improve the student experience are being spotlighted at a teaching event at Edinburgh.

British servicemen and women who are leaving or have left the forces within the last two years are being offered the chance to bring their unique skills into the classroom and train as teachers at The University of Nottingham.

A new study into the grim and frequently heart-breaking history of childhood sickness and death has opened a window on to a surprisingly tender world of close families and devoted parenting in early modern England.

A new exhibition opening this week at Winterbourne House and Garden's Coach House Gallery will offer a window into the lives of the well-known Nettlefold family who lived in the house in the early part of the twentieth century.