Professor feared dead
A professor at Leeds University is believed to have died in the tsunami disaster in Thailand, writes Anna Fazackerley. Sally Macgill, 53, professor of integrated environmental management at Leeds,...
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UK coasts at risk, experts say
Inadequate coastal defence systems could hamper Britain's ability to cope if a tsunami strikes, leading experts warned this week. Coastal defence specialists told The Times Higher that governments...
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Student body is growing (fatter)
The old image of stick-thin undergraduates wasting away on a diet of snacks can be put to rest this week by research that suggests that one in four students thinks they are overweight. A survey of...
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Next week
AFTER THE TSUNAMI Arthur C. Clarke on Sri Lanka, Bill Watson on Indonesia, Costas Synolakis on the future for tsunami research and Carl Knappett and Colin Macdonald on the tsunami in ancient history...
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Cash clawed back
Bournemouth University has recovered £770,000 of the £1 million it was forced to write off after a botched property deal. In 2003, plans to develop a town-centre campus were aborted after it emerged...
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Prime speaker
Janez Potocnik, the new European Commissioner for Science and Research, will address a conference on European research policy issues at Manchester University this week. Mr Potocnik is speaking at the...
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Absence announced
Staff at Ulster University have been informed that Gerry McKenna, vice-chancellor, is to take sabbatical leave after several weeks off sick. Richard Barnett, pro vice-chancellor for teaching and...
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Leeds Met in biggest post-16 network
Leeds Metropolitan University has signed agreements with two local further education colleges, bringing together more than 100,000 students to create what it believes is the biggest post-16...
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Union calls for Welsh mergers
Lecturers' union Natfhe is pushing for the creation of a 50,000-student super-university in Wales as a bulwark against large English institutions out to poach staff and students. It plans to call for...
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New Year Honours
KNIGHTS BACHELOR Robert Rees Davies, CBE, formerly professor of medieval history, Oxford University. Andrew Paul Haines, dean, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Brian Howard Harrison,...
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A Tower of strength and an inspirational example
In a league table of hobbies from hell, taking responsibility for protecting two of the world's most iconic and irreplaceable buildings from collapse due to subsidence must come close to the top. But...
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PM Wilson cheerful at cheap OU expansion
Official papers reveal the academic gem on a list of 'little things that mean a lot' As befits that rarity, an ex-academic prime minister, Harold Wilson was immensely proud of having helped to create...
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Debating Buckingham's fate
The Times Higher is shown making news as well as reporting it in selected government papers from the past 30 years released this week by the National Archives under the newly operative Freedom of...
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'Radioactive Scots' sparked contamination fears
Newly released records from the Scottish Office reveal that there was genuine fear in Sixties Scotland that radioactive Scots - guinea pigs for radiation therapy - could be at large and contaminating...
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Search for ET to start on Earth
Cardiff University researchers have designed and manufactured a "life detector" that will be used by Nasa scientists this year in their search for proof that extraterrestrial life exists. A prototype...