Campus round-up
Imperial College LondonPositive aid to sugar controlWeight-loss surgery is not a cure for type 2 diabetes, but it can improve blood-sugar control, a study has found. Previous studies have claimed...
Imperial College LondonPositive aid to sugar controlWeight-loss surgery is not a cure for type 2 diabetes, but it can improve blood-sugar control, a study has found. Previous studies have claimed...

Helen and Edith Chesebrough rest on the steps with their Airedale terriers - Rough, Radiance and Master Nobbler - in Burlingame, California in 1917. Three years later, Anita Blake poses with a lapdog...

How engaging - Wooing alumni with the promise of lifelong relationships
A pay-day loans company has been accused of preying on vulnerable students after advertising itself as an alternative to government-backed student loans.
An Iranian nuclear scientist has been killed by a car bomb in the capital Tehran.
More than 50 graduates are chasing every job offered by some of Britain’s top employers, new research suggests.

David Willetts has urged universities to redouble their efforts to boost knowledge transfer income from businesses despite a stagnant economy.
A former employee of Queen’s University Belfast has been arrested as part of an investigation into alleged threats to kill a former colleague.

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

A professor of pharmacology has been named as the new head of Brunel University.
The number of research council-funded doctoral students remaining in the academy beyond graduation is increasing, new figures reveal.
The president of Universities UK has written a letter to newspapers in India expressing his “deep sadness” at the murder of student Anuj Bidve and to reassure others planning to study in Britain that...
Links between universities and manufacturing could help make Britain 'great' again. John Morgan writes
Scientists and novelists have joined forces to pen dramatic tales of discovery. Matthew Reisz writes
A researcher from Bournemouth University has published what he describes as a pioneering example of "scholarship in the guise of a film script".