Peers protest at threat to academic freedom
Peers joined forces with vice chancellors last week to fend off a new threat to academic freedom. Members of the House of Lords used the second reading of the Disability Discrimination Bill on Monday...
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Saturday shopping
The most controversial statement at this year's Natfhe conference in Torquay came not from a delegate or speaker but from the mayor of Torbay. In her opening speech she said: "I see there are a lot...
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Scottish teaching to get Pounds 1m boost
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is launching a Pounds 1 million initiative to help improve the quality of teaching in Scotland's 21 higher education institutions. In a thorough analysis...
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Gender clash
The National Union of Students' women's campaign group is set to clash with the Islamic fundamentalist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir over racial, lesbian and gay and women's issues at a rally in...
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Theft charge
Simon Heighes, the Oxford don and baroque music expert, has been charged with the theft of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, worth Pounds 67,500, from the library at Christ Church. He was...
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A book for the bobby on the beat
"Well, Sarge, I was proceeding in a westerly direction down Green Street when I was struck by this matrix management theory." This might seem an unlikely storyline for ITV's police soap The Bill, but...
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Double vision
(Photograph) - Double vision: Colleagues have presented Harold Hankins, who retires at the end of this month after 12 years as principal and vice chancellor of UMIST, with a portrait of himself by...
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UK research spending lags but still bucks the trend
The United Kingdom is defying the international norm by increasing research and development expenditure, according to statistics produced by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
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Fears over flood of racism cases
The growing caseload of compensation claims against allegedly "racist" university and college employers is alarming education managers. They fear an increasing number of frivolous industrial tribunal...
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Industrialists and academics envisage licence for skill
The Royal Society of Edinburgh and Scottish Enterprise have been bringing together academics and industrialists in a bid to capitalise on Scotland's scientific research, writes Olga Wojtas. Their...
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Distant voices, still lives
If you had behavioural problems at the age of ten you are twice as likely to be living in a stressful place at the age of 28, research at a pioneering centre at the Institute of Psychiatry in London...
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Shellfish reveal cocktail of contaminants in sea
Contaminants in the shells of clams, cockles and limpets indicate pollution levels in the seas and rivers in which they live, writes Iola Smith. Traditionally, shellfish have not been used to monitor...
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Is everybody happy . . . how do you know?
What does the word "unhappy" make you think of? Your answer to this question could show how your memory works, and this in turn could indicate how likely you are to attempt suicide. At the University...
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Horde of the flies is key to disease
A group of London University medical students is preparing for seven weeks of sun, sea and sand flies in a bid to help combat a potentially fatal parasitic disease. The eight students from the Royal...
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Students lose with joker
France has cancelled plans for a "joker" year, which would have allowed undergraduates to keep their grant for one repeat year. The second-chance grant was one of the key measures resulting from a...