Tea's good, but hold the milk
The British may always put the kettle on when faced with a crisis, yet a study suggests that our drinking habits may deprive us of tea's most beneficial properties. Scientists have found that regular...
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Sea tells price of progress
The first hints that the industrial revolution may have triggered a surge in the rate of sea level rise are beginning to emerge. Preliminary results of a pioneering study of salt marshes are...
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EU supports US link
European Union heads of government have given their support to a plan to establish a permanent broadband transatlantic telecommunications link between research and education centres of excellence in...
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Blood from First Nations people destroyed
A geneticist has agreed to destroy samples of blood he drew from a Canadian tribe in the early 1980s. Richard Ward, who is now at Oxford University, had been given permission to draw samples from 900...
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New head of Spain's research council named
The Spanish government has appointed physicist Rolf Tarrach head of the Spanish research council, CSIC. Tarrach, a distinguished scientist and specialist in quantum field and elemental particle...
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Don's Diary
Tuesday Revel in glorious new office at Keele, made possible by swift departure of colleague for life as deputy vice-chancellor. Will be able to accommodate increased tutorial sizes anticipated for...
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Star Turn
Students fall in love in his lectures on literature as theology. Is this God moving in mysterious ways, Domenico Pacitti asks Students signing up for Angelo Cecchini's American literature courses at...
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OU admits exam debacle
"Appalling" exam conditions are "part of the risk" faced by the 4,500 Open University students who sit their exams overseas or in non-standard exam centres each year, the OU has admitted. Mature...
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UEA's designer chic
The University of East Anglia is getting used to a new role as muse of the fashion world after designer Christian Lacroix was spotted at the Paris fashion shows wearing a UEA scarf. "All we can...
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QMUC's poster chic
Launching the Department of Health's campaign promoting the joys of virginity, public health minister Yvette Cooper requested a "hip" and "groovy" tone from advertising execs. The campaign, which...
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Poor on all counts
It is difficult to know whether to recommend that Bournemouth University improve its literacy or its numeracy. Last week the university launched its campus-based WorkBank, which aims to match...
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Paris
Numbers enrolling for first and second degrees at French universities have continued to drop, but postgraduate enrolments showed an unprecedented rise of 2.9 per cent, according to ministry of...
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Guangzhou
Guangdong Province's Zhongshan University and Zhongshan Medical University merged last month in an attempt at competing with Beijing, Qinghua, Fudan and Nankai universities. The local government has...
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Barranquilla
A professor at the University of Atl ntico, killed by gunmen last week, was the seventh academic to be assassinated in Colombia in the past year. Alfredo Castro, a professor of social sciences, was a...
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Pisa
The University of Pisa has announced incentives of up to 25 per cent on top of salaries for lecturers who are prepared to work harder. The rector said there would be strong student representation on...