Links pay in knowledge index
A league table of the UK's top "knowledge-based" cities reveals the economic clout of higher education working with key industries, according to Cardiff University researchers, writes Tony Tysome....
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College cash is tied in red tape
Colleges are passing up the chance of funding-council cash because of the bureaucratic costs involved in claiming it, college bosses said this week. The Association of Colleges said that the year-...
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Legal view: Blair unlikely to sue
Gill Philips, a solicitor for Times Newspapers and an expert on libel, said: "I find it somewhat hard to believe that those words are libellous. "In the first instance, they strike me as amounting to...
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Leeds team in **** fracas
Leeds University's award-winning student newspaper is considering plans to go private after accusing its paymasters, the student union executive, of censorship, writes Phil Baty. The union's...
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Row over freedom of speech at Oxford
Oxford University's 120-year-old "forum of free expression", the Oxford Magazine , has been accused of suppressing controversial debate after it refused to publish an open letter from 30 Oxford...
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Research elite winners in 'special pot' league
Elite research universities are getting the lion's share of cash from the Higher Education Funding Council for England's £1.7 billion "special pot", figures released this week show. The special pot...
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Turbulent times as engineers plan unity
A massive shake-up of engineering degrees looks likely as the 36 engineering institutions move to consolidate first into two bodies and, ultimately, into a single body. The Institution of Mechanical...
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Physics? It's still all geeks to us, public tells institute
The stereotype of the physics geek is alive and well among the general public and academic physicists themselves, a survey has found. The Institute of Physics challenged a random selection of...
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Council hits back at criticism of grants
The Engineering and Physical Science Research Council has rejected criticism this week that it is denying career opportunities to scientists by refusing to allow contract researchers to bid for...
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Nerc offers past winners share of spare £10m in grants
The Natural Environment Research Council, which cancelled a round of grants last summer, has found a spare £10 million that it has put up for grabs, writes Caroline Davis. Nerc is inviting...
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Cost and image take toll
Cuts are likely despite high levels of excellence, writes Anna Fazackerley. A mass cull of physics departments is on the cards unless the subject is given urgent financial assistance, leading figures...
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Copenhagen
The five Nordic countries of Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland are discussing plans to boost formal cooperation between their researchers within a Nordic Research and Innovation Area,...
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Brussels
Nato secretary-general Lord Robertson has presented Andrei Larichev the 2003 Nato Science Partnership prize. The Russian scientist developed a revolutionary device for helping diagnose eye disorders...
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Canberra
More than 20,000 Chinese students attending Australian universities will have their qualifications recognised on their return home under an agreement signed by Chinese president Hu Jintao and...
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Rangoon
Seven students arrested for distributing pamphlets opposing the Burmese government's plan for democratisation and reconciliation are being held at a military interrogation centre and will soon be...