Sheffield tackles mumps outbreak
Students under 19 years old are at risk of a new mumps outbreak that could hit campuses around the country this autumn, according to health officials. Sheffield University has written to all new...
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Home Office rejects call to ditch visa fees
Overseas student-rights campaigners are furious that the Home Office snubbed their call for a new visa extension charge to be dropped. The UK Council for Overseas Student Affairs held emergency talks...
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Findings: Drug abuse linked to ADHD
Youngsters with severely short attention spans are more likely to have their futures blighted by drink and drug problems, according to a new study, writes Natasha Gilbert. Researchers in the US have...
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Findings: Of mice and memory loss
Genetic scientists in Germany may have discovered the key to a clinical cure for the loss of learning and memory abilities suffered in old age, writes Keith Nuthall. A research team at the Max Planck...
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Accusations fly after BNP quotes lecturer
The British National Party has claimed that universities are denying freedom of speech after a Staffordshire University lecturer complained about the use of his picture in their publicity material....
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UHI wins a seal of approval from QAA
Quality watchdogs have given their seal of approval to the UHI Millennium Institute, marking another milestone on its journey to becoming the University of the Highlands and Islands. The Quality...
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Oxford calls for more e-learning research
The rush to embrace e-learning is raising doubts about whether enough research is being done into the benefits for students and staff in different disciplines. Oxford University's Learning...
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Get a life? Not with our hours
New guidelines on work-life balance have met with scepticism. Phil Baty reports. Richard White does not have much of a personal life. He is a -year old postdoctoral student at Imperial College London...
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Casting a fresh 'i' over science
Problem-based learning is replacing the uninspired combined science teaching of yore. Derek Raine charts its ascent. A long time ago, when the phrase "inspiring students" was not on our university...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name: David J. McGarvey Age: 41 Job: Senior lecturer in chemistry, Keele University Salary: about £38k Qualifications:...
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Rivalry and rebuff in race for £2m
In light of allegationsof unfairness made against the British Academy, Phil Baty looks at a Sussex research team's complaint Richard Grove was delighted when his research plans beat competition from...
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An East Coast visionary with a bit of an image problem
For Susan Sontag, being a writer gives her permission to interrogate the world, but perversely in her critique of photography she accepts too much and asks too little, argues Mary-Ann Kennedy. It is...
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Goodbye to Easy Street
The once idle summer months are now awash with conferences, research and red tape, says Michael Kelly in the first of a series on how university staff spend their summer 'holidays'. A former...
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Darkness in the Catholic confessional
Sexual scandal has rocked the Roman Catholic church but little attention has been given to the true nature of clergy abuse, writes Natasha Gilbert. John J. Geoghan took up his last post as an active...
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'Kicking around a cancer patient...'
...That's how we are treating the the reefs and seas, says one expert on coral bleaching. Linda Vergnani reports on scientists' alarm about the state of our oceans. Just off Heron Island, Australia,...