Essex girl goes for PhD
Tracy Playle, the Essex girl who claimed she was ridiculed about her background and accent by a Cambridge University interviewer when she applied for a place at Trinity College, is to return to...
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Had a wizard time
New Zealand's official wizard - a former sociology lecturer at the University of New South Wales - is retiring as he approaches his 70th birthday. Ian Brackenbury Channell was made wizard of...
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Don's diary: Filming Shanghai boom
Tuesday Below a fog of pollution and moisture, the Beijing summer is in full swing. We are on our way to shoot Shanghai Boom , the video for an Open University interdisciplinary course on the...
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In the news: Chris Higgins
World leaders at the Earth summit in Johannesburg heard yesterday from a trustee of Future Harvest UK, a charity that aims to understand how to feed the world while preserving its fragile environment...
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The benefits of bringing your husband to work
It's timwe for universities to recognise the needs of academic couples, say Phyllis Moen and Stephen Sweet. In the US and the UK, two in three couples with a child under the age of six are in dual-...
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Child trade on rise, study finds
International trafficking of children for adoption has reached unprecedented levels and will continue to rise, an academic study says. More than 32,000 infants, far more than previously thought,...
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NI celebrations mark students' peace efforts
Students and academics in Northern Ireland are celebrating the 30th anniversary of a unique partnership in which students led the fight against sectarianism. As the province erupted in violence in...
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Cambridge building Eden in the east
A decade after it seemed to be wilting as funding dried up, Cambridge Botanic Garden has marked its return to rude health with the unveiling of plans for a £16 million visitor centre, writes Steve...
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Update: 13:20
Help students engage in politics, says NUS leader National Union of Students president, Mandy Telford, today backed calls to engage more young people in politics. Commenting on the findings of a...
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Today's news
Lack of cash puts gene banks in jeopardy The world’s ability to feed itself as the human population expands is in jeopardy because the gene banks where seed and plant varieties of food crops are...
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Editor ready to take on publishing monopolies
David Prosser, the journals commissioning editor at Oxford University Press, is to head a European organisation that aims to break the monopolies that traditional publishers have on research...
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RSVP - and bring a bottle-nosed dolphin
Archaeologists have found evidence that the Anglo-Saxons hunted and wiped out dolphins in the Humber estuary. Excavations at a site at Flixborough have uncovered 350 fragments of bone and teeth from...
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Ulster science park gets £3.5m addition
Ulster University is expanding the award-winning science park on its Magee campus with a £3.5 million building, due to open in 2003. Chris Barnett, Ulster's director of science and technology...
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Queen's astronomers win £1m for research
Astronomers at Queen's University, Belfast, have won more than £1 million for a series of research projects. The funding includes £545,000 from the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council....
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IBM camp aims to turn girls on to engineering
IBM Greenock is hosting a week-long technology camp for 30 Scottish schoolgirls in a bid to boost their interest in science and maths and to encourage them to consider a career in engineering. Jane...