PM backs his friend as Tory co-chairman Lord Feldman denies he is source of damning remarks about local party members

There are plans to present him with a student award despite continuing controversy over his regime's human rights record

The segregation by gender of Muslim students has been in the news this week, after a pressure group claimed the practice was widespread. Reyhana Patel, herself a Muslim, believes that gender segregation can actually be empowering for her and her sisters

Advertising unpaid positions for new graduates has now been banned by several leading UK universities.

An Oxford professor has claimed white Britons 'will be a minority' in the UK before 2070 if current population trends continue.

Cambridge University has taken the top spot in a new university league table. It has beaten Oxford University for the third year in a row in the latest annual Complete University Guide.

Prime Minister gives London Mayor’s younger brother Jo senior government job as his head of policy

Met Police set up dedicated phone line for alleged victims of sexual misconduct

Normally the youth-oriented Channel 4 would try to keep its audience glued into the small hours. But the broadcaster has now launched a mobile game designed to send hyperactive teenagers to sleep in order to educate them about the benefits of an early night.

Experts say it's time for hospitals to pay more attention to the partners of women who experience difficult labours

Many people have experienced the odd feeling that although we are our body's "owner-operator", as Hugh Aldersey-Williams puts it, the body is actually a strange appendage: not really us at all, more like one of our plug-ins – a car or computer. Cultures have veered wildly in their attitude to the body. Aldersey-Williams, an excellent, versatile science writer, pitches his book at just the right level of amused and curious enquiry.

Research at Oxford University found victims' paranoia especially pronounced if their attacker was someone they knew

A youngster wowed his teachers when it emerged the piece of shale he brought with him to a show-and-tell was in fact a 300 million-year-old fossil.

Patients given drugs with no active ingredients, or unproven or unnecessary treatments, finds study