University of Manchester - Cell mates
Researchers have discovered a method of allowing healthy cells to take control of cancerous cells, preventing them from developing into tumours. Scientists at the University of Manchester found that...
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Swansea Metropolitan University - Energy enlightened
A Welsh university has recorded lower energy usage than any other higher education institution in the UK, new figures show. Data for 2007-08 published by Estates Management Statistics show that...
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University of Leeds - Harmony and discord
The traditional music of Northern Ireland is often thought to be linked with longstanding religious divisions in the country, but a new study suggests that the "politicisation" of the country's music...
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Shared danger
An artist-in-residence at the University of Brighton is to make a series of films about the threat of global warming. David Harradine's films will feature a human or animal dancing in different...
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Daytime TV: Enduring love
Alain Badiou can't get a word in, but Emily Bronte's doomed lovers speak volumes, says Gary Day
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Hot papers in economics and business 2007-09
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators
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Our V-C is a hero - official!
Garlands of scented ragwort were hung around our Vice-Chancellor's neck during his recent visit to Poppleton's new offshore campus in the former Soviet Republic of Kalashnistan. The garlands,...
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Don't go on the defensive
Alan Ryan ponders why institutions are so uptight about freedom of information
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Autonomy can be an illusion
US academics may face less red tape than those in the UK, but they must also appease students, whose opinions can halt careers
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From where I sit: Drought, saving and spending
How bad is the drought in India? The evidence of a crisis in the countryside - farmers forced to sell their cattle, shortages of water and fodder, failure of crops - has been vividly described by P....
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Graham Rees, 1944-2009
Graham Rees, a world authority on Jacobean printing and the works of Francis Bacon, has died.He was born in Salisbury on 31 December 1944 and educated at St Albans School and the University of...
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What does it mean to be 'qualified'?
As the wailing continues over the school-leavers "qualified" for university entry for whom there are no places available, we should reflect on what "qualified" means. Anyone who scrapes through A...
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Tune in to excellence 1
I am distressed at the prospect of the First Secretary and a host of civil servants spending their valuable time poring over "spidergrams" to judge universities' performance ("Pressure grows to...
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Tune in to excellence 2
Publication of comparative performance data in the form of spidergrams has been tried before. Between 2001 and 2004, the Home Office published similar statistics for police authorities in such form....