Man provides chair
Man Group plc, a hedge fund provider, has endowed a new chair in quantitative finance at Oxford University, with a £3.3m benefaction. It will be Oxford's first fully endowed chair in finance. Man...
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Freemasons' appeal on rise in FaceBook era
Masonry is alive and recruiting in academia. So does it deserve its reputation? Chloe Stothart reports In an imposing Victorian building, men in ceremonial robes gather. After eating strawberries in...
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McLaren, Michie tributes pour in
Tributes have been paid to two leading scientists, Dame Anne McLaren and her former husband Donald Michie, who died in a car accident last week. Dame Anne, 80, spent her career investigating...
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Stormy brain waves
Experts at University College London are preparing to create tsunamis in a controlled environment in order to study their effects on buildings and coastlines. The team is planning to develop a...
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The games of life
Online computer games enhance rather than constrict young people's imagination, new research suggests. Simon Bradford and Nic Crowe of Brunel University conducted a three-month study of 13 to 16-year...
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Aphids hit back
Greenflies have a chemical defence system that allows them to disable attacking predators by setting off a deadly mustard "bomb", according to new research. A study involving scientists at Imperial...
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NEET discrimination
An academic at Manchester Metropolitan University has criticised government figures for young people classified as "not in employment, education or training" (NEET), claiming that they are misleading...
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Care study wins funds
Researchers at Bradford University have received £60,000 from the Parkinson's Disease Society to study ways of improving residential care for those living with Parkinson's disease. Researchers will...
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Northampton and London South Bank universities
* In the list of institutions that had submitted an entry to this year's Times Higher awards published in last week's paper, we omitted Northampton and London South Bank universities. We can confirm...
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Patricia Soley-Beltran
* Patricia Soley-Beltran, who was mentioned in "People" last week, took her PhD in the sociology of gender and science, and not on modelling, as we reported.
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'The norms have changed'
JEFFREY WEEKS EXECUTIVE DEAN, ARTS and human SCIENCES, LONDON SOUTH BANK One of the best-known catchphrases from the television comedy Little Britain is the character Daffyd's chippy insistence that...
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World Encompassed
Texas A&M loses bacteria licences The Center for Disease Control in the US has suspended a university's licence to work with two bacteria after the institution took more than a year to report...
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Disclosure, not exposure, is still our best bet
"Almost 50 universities at risk of financial collapse", the headline promised. "Universities in peril", forecast another. The reaction was predictable. Politicians were quick to argue that students...
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Here's an initiative: leave us to come up with ideas
Does the new tightly focused ministry signal a more meddlesome approach? Michael Shattock hopes not The creation of a new government department with "universities" in its title can be seen as a...
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Innovation needs some fresh ideas
DIUS offers Whitehall a real chance to make changes for the better, says James Wilsdon It is easy to exaggerate the significance of changes to the machinery of government. Novel acronyms and fresh...