UK fails to boldly go with mice in space
Fear of animal-rights protests played a key role in preventing UK scientists joining an international effort to put mice in space. The student-led Mars gravity biosatellite programme will involve US...
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Fellows may face action over Greenfield leak
The Royal Society is to consider whether to take disciplinary action against fellows who spoke out in last week's Times Higher against Baroness Greenfield's nomination for a fellowship, writes Anna...
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Clarke urges a green stance
The significance of sustainable development for UK universities was driven home this week with the launch of an action plan that puts compliance on their agenda. Charles Clarke, the education...
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Art illuminates physics
The baffling world of quantum mechanics will flicker into life when a theoretical physicist and artist turn a physics department into a giant piece of public art. The Mile End Road buildings of Queen...
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Sainsbury told to protect labs
The government should help foot the bill for security at universities under threat from animal rights extremists, MPs said this week. In the first of its new "science question time" sessions with...
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Swansea v-c admits taking axe to good-quality departments
Richard Davies, the vice-chancellor of Swansea University, has admitted that four departments he is proposing to close are all of good quality and are recruiting well, writes Tony Tysome. The...
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Anxious Welsh fear fees blitz
Welsh universities could lose staff and find it harder to manage student recruitment if the ruling assembly fails to spell out how it will compensate institutions prevented from charging top-up fees...
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Vet your Whistler on web
Glasgow University has launched a website highlighting the life and work of one of its most illustrious honorary graduates, artist James McNeill Whistler. The university houses an unparalleled...
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FE demands time to improve
Further education college and funding heads want more time to rectify problems identified by Ofsted inspectors, writes Tony Tysome. Last week's annual report from the inspection agency says that...
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Designer who aims to be in a class of his own one day
After spending several months in London primary school classrooms, designer Mark Champkins has won a place on Nesta's graduate pioneer programme. Realising that designers working on educational...
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Nesta pioneers do the business
Graduates of design, architecture, crafts, fashion, film, music, performing arts, publishing and television and radio courses are being exposed to business realities as part of a drive to improve...
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Survey 'weeded out' critical voices
Universities were able to silence critical voices in the recent pilot national student satisfaction survey by "weeding out" up to a third of those eligible to take part, The Times Higher has learnt....
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Rome
A U-turn by an Italian senate committee has scuppered hopes that the government would escape the threat of daily fines of €309,750 (£212,000) for failing to comply with European law and change the...
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Harare
Lovemore Madhuku, a University of Zimbabwe law lecturer and leader of the country's National Constitutional Assembly, is said to have been beaten by riot police and left for dead last week. The...
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Minsk
Jewish organisations in and outside Belarus have condemned the closure of the International Humanities Institute at Belarus State University, the only higher education institution in the country that...