University of York - Pushing the boundaries
The first buildings in a £750 million campus extension have opened. The £200 million first phase of the development at the University of York includes new accommodation for the departments of...
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University of Bath - You've got to hand it to them
A study of the fingers of students on a computer science course has led to the conclusion that technophobia could be linked to hormone levels experienced in the womb. Scientists at the University of...
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University of Cambridge - Celebrating achievements
An incubator jar used by IVF pioneer and Nobel prizewinner Robert Edwards is among items on display in an exhibition to mark 50 years of scientific discovery at a Cambridge college. The exhibition at...
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Art that moves
These pictures, which appear to have sprung legs, are among the first to be shown in a new gallery to showcase the talents of Northumbria University graduates. The Fresh Art exhibition at the...
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News in Brief
United StatesBudget boostThe California State University has welcomed its first increase in state funding since 2007. The 2010-11 California State budget, signed off by governor Arnold Schwarzenegger...
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Into the wild: 12 volunteers sign on for a taste of nature
Students go down to the woods for back-to-basics teaching and learning. Jon Marcus reports
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Grant Winners
HUMANITIES IN THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA NETWORKThe Hera Network has awarded more than €16 million (£14 million) to 19 transnational collaborative research projects across Europe. Co-funded by the...
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Blogconfidential: Blowing the whistle on corruption
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Blowing the whistle on corruption
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Appointments
University of StirlingKathleen JamieKathleen Jamie is a poet in motion as she moves to the University of Stirling to take up a chair in creative writing. Professor Jamie began creative writing while...
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US informality encourages rudeness in the classroom
Study finds female lecturers bear the brunt but also report it more often. Sarah Cunnane writes
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Odds and quads
At a time when public finances were in a dire state and much of the country was still badly bomb-damaged, the 1951 Festival of Britain provided a perfect "tonic for the nation".
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Surrey gives students a voice in global market
British universities have embraced "the rhetoric of internationalisation" without understanding the crucial need for languages and inter-cultural awareness, a professor has claimed.Colin Grant, pro...
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Spending on pure science 'needs to be protected'
Cern leader to tell engineers that advances come from fundamental research. Paul Jump reports
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Calculators at the ready
Browne's fee-for-all will challenge universities' price-fixing skills and applicants' mathematics, warns Helen Carasso
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The academy will excel only where it is free to challenge and criticise
Geoffrey Crossick says that short-term crisis should not be allowed to curtail Britain's ability to succeed in a changing environment