Cataract lab pioneers human touch
A laboratory to house world-leading, non-animal research into cataracts opens today at the University of East Anglia. The Pounds 170,000 lab is funded by the Humane Research Trust, which supports...
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Plugged in
Further academic soaps nominated by Mark Griffiths of Plymouth University include Only Fools and Courses, Tears Before B.Ed Time, Did You B.Sc, Low Grant and that well-known university-based crime...
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On the ball
Never let it be said that The THES has no influence. No sooner had we reported that the Nigerian university system was expected to close for the duration of this year's Junior World Cup than FIFA...
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Power plant
An extremely warm hello to the author of the new Staff and Educational Developmental Association paper Education for the Environment, Malcolm Plant.
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Naked fear
Amid fears that protests about student poverty had taken a dramatic turn, Dundee University administrators raced to investigate reports that a naked woman was chained to a campus fence. But the...
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Premier league
While Italian politics always repays careful watching - if you allow yourself to be distracted for a moment you are liable to find that one of the major players has resigned, been indicted or had his...
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Joker played
James Simpson, moderator of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland, and author of three joke books, received a founder's day honorary degree at Aberdeen University. David Fergusson, professor...
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Indian student uncorks varsity race row
An Indian student's attempt to discover why he was refused entry to the elite Cambridge University Food and Wine Society has left a distinctly bad taste in the mouth. Udi Goyal's investigation...
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Budget hits atom smasher
British particle physicists this week were faced with the prospect of a big slowdown in their programme for building the giant detectors to be used by the Large Hadron Collider particle smashing...
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Sound landing
Riveting event of the week was clearly last week's Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals main committee meeting, when the debate was so exciting that at one stage Sir Brian Follett, vice...
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Hula hoop
The British Geological Survey is advertising for a specialist to help with a celebration of its Jason project, which beams in earth science from Hawaii and outer space via a satellite link. But the...
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Animate objects
Charity patrons can be on the doddery side, but it is a rare charity that will admit this on its headed notepaper. A pioneer in this field is the Humane Research Trust, which first lists its "patrons...
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Loan deranger
British students accused of serious ethical offences may have a new and effective defence if the case of Jake Baker, the United States student accused of placing violent pornography on the Internet,...
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Welsh winner at CVCP
Gareth Roberts, vice chancellor of Sheffield University, is to be the next chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. Professor Roberts, 54, defeated John Stoddart of Sheffield...
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Dressing down
An angry member of the public recently called the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals demanding it institute a student dress code on the grounds that students "especially in Southampton"...