New model argument
So is Roger Penrose (THES, December 8) an opponent of computer science, pathetically fighting for the superiority of physics over computing? I wonder what has caused this ludicrous bias? It seems to...
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Canon lore for musicians
In attempts to define the literary canon, the oldest works usually cited are the Iliad and the Odyssey, both of which are about 3,000 years old. This means that people got on fine without them for...
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United by a sense of outrage
Universities are in serious decline. Many senior academics have recently used this, and the latest round of Government higher education spending cuts, to argue the case for top-up fees as a way out...
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Phoenix needs help to rise
* Edinburgh University and Edinburgh District Council have joined in a town and gown initiative to help combat the trauma suffered by children over the past four years, Olga Wojtas writes. Nigel...
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Dynamic duo head south
(Photograph) - Alan Smithers and Pamela Robinson, the leading education and employment researchers, are moving their research centre from Manchester University's faculty of education to Brunel...
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Jet-X hitches Russian ride
An X-ray sensitive satellite developed by astronomers at Leicester University is intending to shed light on the darkest secrets of black holes. There are two types of black hole: small ones on the...
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A model of life on the ocean wave
(Photograph) - A micro-organism that lives in oceans may have a dramatic effect on global warming, Aisling Irwin writes. Scientists at the Southampton Oceanography centre are modelling the micro-...
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Burning issues
Glasgow University has sent out a newsletter, Prospect, to thousands of residents round its West End campus, letting them know about the exciting range of events and services which the university has...
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Oxford joins race for saviour antibodies
A glimmer of hope for multiple sclerosis sufferers and for those with other autoimmune diseases is offered with the opening of a research centre in Oxford dedicated to therapeutic antibodies. The...
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Mini Japan takes root in Berks
British students have been given the go-ahead to apply through the Universities and Colleges Admisions Service and receive standard mandatory awards covering tuition fees to study at a small private...
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Dead cert
James Owen Drife of Leeds University's school of medicine has been reassuring medical students about their post-qualification careers in the latest student edition of the British Medical Journal. "In...
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Right to beef
Sir Bernard Tomlinson and fellow scientists are quite right to kick up a fuss about mad cow disease. After all, the incidence of its human equivalent, Creutzfelt Jacob disease, is one in a million,...
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Docklands go ahead
A London docklands university is to become a reality with the Government's decision to approve a Pounds 16 million technology centre in the Royal Docks in East London. A Pounds 7.8 million grant from...
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Code of conduct for overseas deals
All United Kingdom universities and most further education colleges are to face sanctions for the first time if they breach guidelines for overseas student recruitment practices and the delivery of...
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Safety risk closes Belfast job centre
Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education has shut one of its buildings because of health and safety fears. The closure of the Jobs Skills Centre came as a report revealed many of the...