Astronomers go ballistic about science budget
Astronomers have reacted angrily to last week's science budget allocations, describing them as a "disaster for pure science" and questioning the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council's...
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Scottish students renew campaign
The National Union of Students Scotland is to resurrect its campaign for student grants as Scotland prepares for its own parliament, writes Olga Wojtas. The union, which is autonomous from NUS UK,...
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Asthma strikes twice
Up to one in five British school children suffers from asthma-like symptoms, according to a Leicester University survey. Researchers following 1,500 children from birth found that asthma is still a...
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DiCaprio's Titanic teenage appeal
The days of the macho film star are over. Today's young women are attracted to caring and sensitive actors. Anne Massey, dean of media arts at Southampton Institute, is looking at teenage infatuation...
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How tolerant managers get ahead
Education is the least good predictor of management success, according to Cranfield University researchers. A worldwide study looking at what determines a person's success or failure in an...
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Change to pattern of killer bug
Twelve cases of meningitis have been reported in British universities so far this academic year with two students dying from the disease in the past fortnight. Though numbers of university cases are...
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Tree doctor
(Photograph) - Tree doctor: A physicist from York University believes he has unearthed the apple tree which inspired Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity. Richard Keesing is now awaiting the results...
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RAE opens transfer market
Flutters in the academic transfer market could start happening from now on because of a change in rules governing the next research assessment exercise, an expert on the RAE has warned. Under the...
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Industry task group for research
Industry and users such as the National Health Service will play a greater role in assessing university research under plans announced this week. The Confederation of British Industry and the Higher...
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AoC head pledges no flashiness
The unassuming head of a Northwestern inner-city college has been chosen for the Pounds 100,000-plus post as "champion" of the further education sector. "I'm not going to be flash," said David Gibson...
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Fundraising strategy secures future of Oxford college
Record pledges and donations of Pounds 12.5 million were secured by Worcester College, Oxford, even before the public launch of a Pounds 25 million fundraising campaign last month. Nina Anstee,...
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Private students get fees subsidy for a year
The government will contribute to tuition fees for students at private higher education institutions for at least another year. But the subsidy will continue to be only a third of that given to...
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On the move
John Roberts, 54, chief executive of the Post Office, has been appointed president of council at the Institute for Employment Studies. Lord Alexander of Weedon, 62, chairman of the NatWest Group, has...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Must re-draft Latin American business environment paper - September deadline long passed. Success. Can I ask colleagues to re-read it? No. Thank goodness for email. Ignore unread messages. Any...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Sue Howard asked if all nurses should have degrees Geoffrey Hunt European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences University of Surrey Of course they should. One of the key...