Health agency pledges to 'step up our defences'
The new national Health Protection Agency has pledged to step up research in a bid to tackle new waves of infectious disease such as the recent Sars epidemic. The agency, formed in April, brings...
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No let-up on IP deadlock
Cambridge University academics may seek a ballot to break the deadlock over changes to intellectual property ownership, despite new proposals put forward by one of Britain's leading IP academics and...
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Self-help is key to healthy computers
"Self-healing" computers could be the answer for hard-pressed IT support staff, according to Ulster University computing expert Roy Sterritt. Mr Sterritt of UU's School of Computing and Mathematics...
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Committee calls for doctorate benchmark
Good-practice guidelines for institutions running research degree programmes should be established as the minimum standard required by quality watchdogs, the National Postgraduate Committee has...
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Team virgins fear an orgy of togetherness
Employers rate groupwork skills highly, yet students do not see the point. But why are they so hostile and how can tutors foster the idea that teamwork benefits everyone? asks Peter Levin Come on,...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Rosa Michaelson Age: 47 Job: Fellow in business computing, accountancy and business finance, University of Dundee....
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Today's news
Five A levels is too many, says Cambridge Cambridge University dampened the celebrations of thousands of A-level students yesterday by urging them not to amass too many A grades. (The Times) Bumper...
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The lost chapters of a life in love and letters
Kathi Diamant's curiosity about a shared surname led to 20 years' study of the mysterious life of Kafka's last love that revealed new insights into a literary icon and a remarkable woman of strength...
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Monsters bred for vanity of man
Domestication allows humans to produce animals in colours and shapes that would never survive in the wild. Tim Birkhead argues that it is time for us to put a brake on the process The issue of...
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How to make campus a safer haven
Universities are using technology and traditional policing to boost security for staff and students. Lawrence Cohen reports An agitated undergraduate approached Peter after waiting until the rest of...
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'I put my head in the maw of the leviathan - Las Vegas'
Bruce Begout wanted to get below the surface of 'Sin City'. He found a capitalist virtual extravaganza, with no past and no present, bent on forcing everyone into submission or exile So what was I up...
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A hairy tale of how plum jobs can go sour
Producing an official history of a university can be tough. Michael North reports on how a clash of cultures can leave historians and PR departments trading accusations of spin and irrelevance Given...
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Keith Joseph suggested I 'go back and grow bananas'
Geoff Palmer arrived in England from Jamaica barely literate, yet he overcame that and the racism he found at every turn to become a world renowned professor of brewing. Olga Wojtas reports It is...
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Will they jump or should we push?
The Hedgehog, The Fox, and the Magister's Pox
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a book that was the author's favourite among his own books: "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero...