Daily TV & radio guide - Wednesday
Patient Progress (11.00 am R4). Second of two programmes on stress (repeat). Thinking Allowed – The Larger Map (4.00 R4). Laurie Taylor is in Birmingham, where he meets novelist David Lodge, history...
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Latest international news
Iran defends right to jail academics Iran has hit back at German government criticism of jail sentences for six reformist intellectuals who attended a...
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Latest UK news
Rise in PGCE applications Applications for PGCE places are up nearly 10 per cent on last year, according to statistics from the Graduate Teacher Training Registry. The biggest rise is in primary...
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From today's UK Papers
FINANCIAL TIMES John Scurr, consultant vascular surgeon at London's Middlesex Hospital, will use his research linking flying with deep vein thrombosis to launch a global study into the condition...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Tuesday
Adventures in Science (9.30 am R4). Ben Silburn on the travels of a red blood cell. The Mayfair Set (9.50 am, also 12.50, 3.50, 6.50, 9.50 BBC Knowledge). Rerun of programme about James Goldsmith....
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Latest UK news
Graduates command higher salaries Starting salaries for graduates are expected to rise to about £18,600 next year. A report from the Association of Graduate Recruiters predicts a 3.3 per cent&...
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Latest international news
Italian medical schools called on to tackle BSE The rector of Rome’s Tor Vergata University has called on the Italian government to use university personnel and laboratories to conduct research into...
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From today's UK papers
THE GUARDIAN Children aged between five and eight who are taught in small classes are more likely to go on to apply for a university place, a study of US schools by Princeton University has revealed...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Monday
Composer of the Week (9.00 am R3 and rest of week) is Henri Dutilleux, still alive at 84. Start the Week (9.00 am R4, repeated 9.30) includes historian Catherine Hall, novelist Justin Cartwright and...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Sunday
Two Thousand Years (11.30 am ITV). The sixth century of Christianity (revised repeat). » Music Matters (12.15 R3). With items on Northern Ireland’s Sonic Arts Research Centre, and Manchester’s Hallé...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Saturday
Reports of My Death (10.30 am R4). Anthony Howard on “premature” newspaper obituaries – the occasions when the still living have been able to read tributes on their supposed death. » The Sky at Night...
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QAA takes tough line on top-ups
Universities will face tougher inspection regimes if differential tuition fees are introduced, according to John Randall, chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency. If the government allows...
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Cash-strapped ICS wins a reprieve
London University's cash-strapped Institute of Commonwealth Studies has won a reprieve after a review panel ruled out closure as an option. The panel, chaired by Sir Anthony Kenny, pro vice-...
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Blackstone boosts voluntary work by £27m
Tessa Blackstone, higher education minister, yesterday announced £ million over three years to boost voluntary and community work by higher education students and staff. She said: "Voluntary work...
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John Quelch steps down as LBS dean
John Quelch, the dean of London Business School, is to step down at the end of the academic year, just three years after he joined. The school aims to find a new dean by the end of this academic year...