Latest UK news
OU vice-chancellor leaves for Unesco Sir John Daniel, vice-chancellor of the Open University, is to be assistant director general of Unesco from next spring. Sir John said it would be a “wrench” to...
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TV & radio guide - Tuesday
The Snowman (9.30 am R4). Are snowmen pagan survivals? This and other questions considered by experts in folklore, theology, philosophy … The Civil War: The Cause (10.00 am History Channel, and for...
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Latest international news
Court frees academic jailed for terrorism United States attorney general Janet Reno has freed Mazen Al-Najjar, who was jailed as a suspected terrorist in May 1997. Professor Al-Najjar was...
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Latest UK news
London's research dominance comes under threat Vice-chancellors from London universities and further education institutions have told London mayor Ken Livingstone that the capital’s position as the...
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From today's UK papers
DAILY MAIL MPs will decide tomorrow whether British scientists should be allowed to clone human embryos for research that might lead to cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's Research from...
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TV & radio guide - Monday
» Composer of the Week (9.00 am R3 and rest of week) is Schubert. Random Edition (11.00 am R4). The Strand Magazine for Christmas 1897: Peter Snow consults Chris Willis of Birkbeck and others about...
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TV & radio guide - Sunday
Two Thousand Years (10.30 am ITV). Revised repeats of Melvyn Bragg’s history-of-Christianity series, first shown from April last year, reaches episode two: the second century AD. (The generally...
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TV & radio guide - Saturday
» The Sky at Night (11.55 am BBC2). Repeat from late last Sunday of programme featuring NASA astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman on observing from space. The Real Helen Keller (1.00 C4). How much...
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Offbeat sect offers theology degree
A Christian fundamentalist church that believes in raising the dead is offering degree courses in theology. The Peniel Pentecostal Church, at the centre of political controversy in Brentwood, Essex,...
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Queen's, Ulster win £40m funding
Six research projects are to benefit from a £40 million investment under the government's Support Programme for University Research in Northern Ireland. Earlier this year, Sean Farren, minister for...
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Whistleblowers: Exeter v-c criticised
The lord chancellor has criticised Exeter University vice-chancellor Sir Geoffrey Holland for a "perverse and unreasonable" decision to block a grievance hearing for one of his senior staff. Ruling...
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Analysis: listening, but not yet doing
Race equality for academic staff has become a priority for vice-chancellors, funding councils and trade unions in the past 18 months. The publication of the McPherson report into black teenager...
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Don's Diary
Thursday, week one High up Mount Musallah in Bulgaria, home of Orpheus and scene of his dismemberment by angry Thracian women - far, far from the port-encrusted cloisters with their relentless...
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Glittering prizes
The following have been elected to the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences: Ash Amin , University of Durham; Sara Arber , University of Surrey; Sue Atkins , Cabinet Office; George...
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In the news: Kevin Warwick
Not all his fellow scientists were happy when Kevin Warwick was chosen to give the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, which started this week. Some responded by calling Reading University's...