Swansea University - Next-generation skills
A £20 million Welsh Assembly scheme to increase the number of highly skilled workers in Wales is to be led by Swansea University. The Access to Master's programme will provide annual bursaries and...
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University of Essex - The banks and the disappeared
Academic experts have intervened in a legal case and called for an investigation into the role of banks in financing those who committed human-rights violations in Argentina between 1976 and 1983....
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Newcastle University - Electric dreams a reality
Students and staff with electric cars will soon be plugging themselves in and charging up on campus. Newcastle University has joined the Plugged in Places project, which will introduce vehicle...
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Kingston University - Air link: we shall remember him
A new library has been named in honour of an aeronautical hero. Kingston University's Sir Sydney Camm Centre bears the name of the engineer behind the Hawker Hurricane, the Royal Air Force's first...
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University of Aberdeen - Bog-standard maintenance
Scientists are working to protect peat bogs, a crucial natural resource, from the threat of climate change. Peat bogs provide vast quantities of drinking water, are the UK's largest carbon store (...
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Queen's University Belfast - Sugar's sour effects
Researchers studying diet and health have confirmed a link between sugar intake in the teenage years and risk factors for diabetes and heart disease in later life. The findings were outlined by...
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St Mary's University College - On the side of the angels
The role of angels in theology, philosophy and culture will be discussed in a lecture by the author of a new academic book. Angels, A History looks at how the messengers of God have been imagined in...
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Royal Holloway, University of London - Height of conflict
Iraqi children born in areas affected by high levels of violence are shorter than those born in less violent areas, academics have found. Research using data from three independent surveys conducted...
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Thames Valley University - Creative connection
A new group will see a university collaborate with a network of specialists from the worlds of music, performing arts, film, media, photography, fashion and digital design. Thames Valley University's...
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8 April 2010
Drive for excellence - Getting a grip on the master’s
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Editor digs in over Medical Hypotheses reform
Bruce Charlton rejects Elsevier ultimatum to implement peer review as publisher threatens him with the sack. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Tara Brabazon: The best of places to share uncomfortable words
Truly independent alternative bookshops serve students, academics and society by offering an outlet for risky and challenging titles, says Tara Brabazon
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Five the hard way
Union accuses Cardiff of heavy-handed tactics over redundancies. Hannah Fearn reports
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Monoglottal stop
Arresting the decline of foreign language learning in the UK is vital to business competitiveness and young people’s development, argue David Lammy and Diana Johnson
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Sir D’Arcy networks from beyond the grave
Facebook friends flock to a 150-year-old Scottish polymath, reports Sarah Cunnane