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Prince Charles and Durham expert in Christmas Day documentary on composer of 'Jerusalem' A Durham music expert will star alongside Prince Charles in a Christmas Day programme about the composer of some of Britain's best known anthems.

Public Invited to Tag Paintings to Help Build a National Online Catalogue The Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF), in partnership with the BBC, today announced that all oil paintings in public ownership

The 2011 UCL Research Strategy calls for a transformation of the understanding of the role of our comprehensive research-intensive university in the 21st century.

In the last decade, annual visitor numbers to the Eastern region's only botanic garden have more than doubled, and in November passed 200,000 for the first time in the Garden's 165-year history.

20 Dec 2011 Eight of the country's best and brightest opera singers have been selected for a new National Graduate Opera Program that will run next year as part of a collaboration between the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne and Victorian Opera.

All the artworks pictured below are featured in the Oceanside Museum of Art exhibition "Vantage Point: UCSD Visual Dialogues.

King's College London is pleased to announce that Deborah Bull has accepted the newly created role of Executive Director, King's Cultural Institute, and will join King's in March 2012.

King's College London is pleased to announce that Deborah Bull has accepted the newly created role of Director, King's Cultural Partners, and will join King's in March 2012.

A leading medical scientist from The University of Nottingham Medical School is to be honoured by a new choral work commissioned in his memory.

The scene: a long-term care home that serves elderly residents with dementia. It's lunchtime. A resident is wheeled to the table in a wheelchair.

Forget your supermarket advent calendars this Christmas — The University of Nottingham is launching a free calendar with an interactive twist.

Researcher reveals lost world of local artist in new museum exhibition University of Sussex art historian Alexandra Loske's trip to a Lewes antique shop led to her own exhibition of rarely seen works at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.

Music is more than just sound. Sharing many features with language, it has all the hallmarks of a communicative system, as Cambridge researchers are showing.

Plymouth University’s digital expertise has been drawn upon for a ‘mooving’ farewell as the UK’s biggest contemporary arts event draws to a close in the city.

An unlikely mix of weightlifting pensioners, Jedis, and one corner of the University has changed Scottish film culture.

Meet Patrick Amsellem who is leaving his job as curator at the Brooklyn Museum of Art to become the new head of the Museum of Public Art in Lund from 1 January 2012.

The futuristic world shown in sci-fi movies Blade Runner and Minority Report is one step closer to reality for Sydneysiders thanks to a four-year collaborative research project to be undertaken at the University of Sydney and the University of Technology, Sydney.

Five songs written by renowned author Anthony Burgess from his 1969 screenplay of "A Clockwork Orange" are to be performed for the first time at The University of Manchester.

From Band Aid to X-Factor: a history of the charity single The charity single season gets under way in earnest this week with the release of the BBC charity Children In Need's song Teardrop, followed by TV talent show The X-Factor's Christmas single, Wishing On A Star.

Cornell's coin collection is one of the best-kept secrets on campus, but if archaeologist Annetta Alexandridis has her way, the world will soon have access to every one of its 1,500 coins.

The world-renowned sociologist, Professor Manuel Castells, is to be the second Humanitas Visiting Professor in Media at the University of Cambridge, from 16 to 21 November 2011.

Clare Holtham (1948-2010) had a huge enthusiasm for learning. After a troubled childhood, which led to a spell of homelessness, she became an intrepid traveller and independent-minded student at Newnham College, Cambridge.

WHO: Michael Meister, professor of South Asia Studies in the Department of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania WHAT: Penn Lightbulb Café lecture on "Conducting Research in Pakistan: Restoring Religious Monuments in Swat" WHEN: Wednesday, Nov.

The Cavaleri Quartet has been named as the first recipient of the Radcliffe Chamber Music Residency at the Faculty of Music.

31 Oct 2011 Renowned Melbourne composer and Professor at the University of Melbourne Barry Conyngham's symphonic tribute to the former Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO), Hiroy

26 Oct 2011 A collection of lost colour prints and illuminated books by the iconic artist and poet William Blake - potentially worth millions of pounds - is waiting to be discovered somewhere in the north east of England , according to a University of Manchester art historian.

‘Plymouth through the ages’ has been captured by University Arts students in a stunning city centre illustration display to coincide with the UK’s biggest contemporary art exhibition.

20 Oct 2011 Young people at risk of depression are more likely to listen habitually and repetitively to heavy metal music. University of Melbourne researcher Katrina McFerran has found. Young people at risk of depression are more likely to listen habitually and repetitively to heavy metal music. University of Melbourne researcher Katrina McFerran has found.

Constraints on creativity imposed by computer-aided design (CAD) tools are being overcome, thanks to a novel system that incorporates eye-tracking technology.

A documentary delving into a local man’s underwater world is set to be showcased at Plymouth University, to coincide with the prestigious British Art Show 7.

In collaboration with the biological preserve, the choreographer plans a set of historical tableaux for this winter.

The Power of Stories will be the theme for this year's Arts and Humanities Festival when the School throws opens its doors to the public to showcase the diversity and impact of its research on society.

6 Oct 2011 The University of Melbourne's Southbank campus will stop selling bottled water from today making it the first Victorian university campus to reduce its environmental footprint in this way.