'Domesday book' lays bare the secrets of RAE 2001
A "Domesday Book" listing all the researchers entered for the most recent research assessment exercise is due to be launched today, writes Alison Goddard. It lists the names of more than 50,000...
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Old universities net more teaching cash
Less is being spent on teaching students at new universities compared with old universities and the gap is widening despite the government's commitment to widening participation, according to an...
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Findings: A pulley and a bit of initiative
The secrets of the Middle Ages' leading special-effects experts have been pieced together, writes Steve Farrar. They reveal how England's medieval technicians added magic to dramas with a mixture of...
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Findings: Camelids give warm feeling
The accepted wisdom is that people began to domesticate flocks for a ready supply of food. But evidence from South America shows that some species may have been domesticated for their wool, writes...
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No money to provide long-term contracts, says UUK
Universities are financially compelled to use short-term contracts for research scientists, MPs have heard. Baroness Warwick, chief executive of Universities UK, blamed a lack of resources available...
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Cambridge joins BBC in language venture
Cambridge University Language Centre has struck a deal with BBC Worldwide to co-develop multimedia foreign language courses with the help of a grant from the Isaac Newton Trust. The centre provides...
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UK astronomers join exclusive Euro club
UK astronomers were welcomed into the European Southern Observatory at a meeting held in London on Monday. The £80 million initial membership fee will give British astronomers access to some of the...
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Fellowships 'show government's esteem'
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge has praised lecturers for having "survived" a generation of underfunding. Presenting the third national teaching fellowships in London, on Tuesday, she said...
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Call for better library research resources
The UK must develop a national electronic research library and a strategy for research library provision to ensure researchers have access to world-class information resources, the education and...
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Nashville
Tennessee has resolved its budget deadlock, allowing its public colleges to reopen after a week. Spending on higher education will rise 3.2 per cent.
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Ottawa
Twenty-nine engineering students at Carleton University have received marks of zero for cheating on an assignment. The students admitted they lifted the essays from the internet.
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Moscow
School-leavers in flood-hit areas of southern Russia will not have to take university entrance examinations but will be admitted on school graduation diplomas instead.
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Degrees of certainty?
Does the University of Edinburgh know something the rest of us do not? At 5pm today, it is due to award chancellor Gordon Brown an honorary degree. Meanwhile, the rest of us await the results of the...
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Pota-toe blight
Following on from our Diary item of June 7, judges in Holland have found guilty Teunis Teun, 39, the man accused of breaching the peace after baring his feet in public. Mr Teun was last week fined €...
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Dynamic response
Alfred Nobel made his name - and his money - as the man who invented dynamite. Key to the invention was the method he developed for stabilising nitroglycerine, a highly explosive and unpredictable...