University of Nottingham - Data captured
A university is holding a series of free masterclasses across the country to help the public use and analyse the increasing amount of data available on the internet. The course, run by the Centre for...
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University of Birmingham - Tiny threats and opportunities
Scientists have won £3 million from the research councils and the government to study the environmental effects of nanoparticles found in products such as clothing and cosmetics. The University of...
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University of Salford - Safety in numbers
Partnerships between a university and two further education colleges will benefit 180,000 students as the institutions face up to the UK's new funding climate. The University of Salford has signed...
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Institute of Education/Birkbeck/Leeds - Fear of the Rising Sun
An international network of scholars is set to analyse nationalistic tensions in East Asia. Led by academics at the Institute of Education, the project will encourage research into how schooling and...
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Staffordshire University - Open goal
Gay footballers should be supported by the game's governing bodies to be open about their sexuality, according to a survey conducted by researchers. The poll of fans, players and referees produced by...
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Teesside University - Radical display
A collection of hand-bound books held by a university chancellor is to go on display. Lord Sawyer of Darlington, chancellor of Teesside University, has arranged for an exhibition of his private...
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Durham/Bristol - Long way from home
Scientists have confirmed that a distant galaxy spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope is the most remote object ever observed in the Universe. The galaxy was seen as it would have appeared 600...
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University of the West of Scotland - Legal treatment
A clinic bringing together law students and qualified solicitors to assist poorer communities has opened in Scotland. The Law Wise Clinic, a partnership between the University of the West of Scotland...
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University of the West of England - Sowing green seeds
Thousands of trees are being planted in Malawi as part of a project to offset the paper used by students during their degree courses. Temwa, a charity based in Bristol, is using money raised at the...
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How the leopard got his spots
Mathematical modelling of the development of patterns has been used by researchers to investigate the evolutionary reasons for the markings on big cats. Scientists at the University of Bristol looked...
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Odds and quads
Disastrous defeat in the Franco-Prussian War led to the birth of the Paris Commune in 1871. A self-governing republican council took over the city and refused to accept a humiliating peace treaty...
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Oh strange new world that has such genre writing in it
New wave of creative-writing courses embrace the notion of marketability. Matthew Reisz reports
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'Blood-sport' survivor takes aim at wannabes and too many degrees
Former George Washington head gives Paul Jump a piece of his mind on the state of the US academy
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News in Brief
United StatesDear Bobby, please save usA student enraged by the failure of Louisiana's governor to tackle the problems facing the state's universities has attempted to embarrass him into engaging...
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Warning: developing regions may fall off the world map
Universities need to wake up to downsides of internationalisation, survey claims. John Morgan reports