We'll be all right (probably)
Let's stop panicking and let the swine flu experts do their job, says Kevin Fong
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From where I sit - Risky business is a busted flush
In our household, which is made up of one journalist and one journalist-turned-academic, we have been saying for months: "Wait until the fallout from universities' failed investments is made public."...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Standards issue can't be evaded
That v-cs cannot admit to even understanding MPs' worries about quality and consistency bodes ill for the UK's reputation
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There's no need to be charitable over external governor appointments
The widely held assumption that university councils must have a majority of external members is incorrect, writes Nicholas Bamforth
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Overseas briefing
AustraliaPerformance 'compact' unveiledThe Australian Government is to tie teaching and research performance to negotiated "compact agreements" with universities in an effort to encourage distinct...
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U-Map if you want to, but critics aren't convinced
Some fear that Europe-wide university classification will hamstring institutions. Phil Baty reports
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Pirbright lab to get £92m revamp
Institute of Animal Health to benefit after years of neglect. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Grant winners
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE REPLACEMENT, REFINEMENT AND REDUCTION OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCHThe NC3Rs has funded 13 grants, worth a total of £4.5 million, at UK establishments. The research will advance...
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Merger maestro
Neil Simco's prior experience setting up a university bodes well for the future University of the Highlands and Islands
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Appointments
The Royal Society has announced the winners of its 2009 awards, medals, royal medals and lectures. The UK's independent academy for science presents the awards annually in recognition of research...
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The happening
A student from Bournemouth University is organising a touring exhibition of original costumes worn by Sixties singers the Supremes. Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs, who is studying for a masters in museum...
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University of Sussex - Reaching new depths
A lecturer in education has won first place in the women's division of the Saltfree Double Dip 2009 freediving competition, the UK's national freediving championship. Kattie Lussier, an academic in...
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Queen Margaret University - Just the job
The new Queen Margaret University campus at Musselburgh is worth £77 million to the UK economy, a study has found. Research by the University of Strathclyde revealed that every £1 million QMU spends...
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University of York - A platform for engineering
An academic will use his stint on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square this week to lecture on how engineering is changing the world. As part of Antony Gormley's art project, John Robinson, head of...