Ex-Oxbridge rule
A quarter of MPs and 42 per cent of peers in Parliament were educated at Oxbridge, a report by the Sutton Trust charity reveals this week. The report also says that Labour MPs who serve as members of...
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Nautical winner
This year's British Academy Book Prize has been awarded to N. A. M. Rodger, professor of naval history at Exeter University, for The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815.
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Kingston's virtual boost
Research carried out at Kingston University found that e-learning widens the diversity of students applying for university. Kingston's Virtual Learning Environment, produced by software supplier...
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New Durham college
Durham University is to open its first new college in the city for more than 30 years. The 16th of Durham's colleges will be named after Josephine Butler, the Northumberland-born writer and social...
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Correction
In our report about Leeds Metropolitan University's position on leave during its staff development festival (November 4), the words "in any but rare circumstances" were omitted from a sentence quoted...
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Gag money rejected
The whistleblower who raised the alarm about the conduct of a Sheffield University study with the drug company Procter & Gamble rejected a £145,000 payoff from his university. Aubrey Blumsohn...
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MP calls for probe into Sheffield's relationship with the drug industry
MPs have raised fresh concerns that the commercial interests of the pharmaceutical industry are hampering independent academic research after The Times Higher 's reports about the conduct of...
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Fun guy cultivates a delicious business
A former PhD student has raised £175,000 for his company cultivating truffles after pitching the business idea on the BBC programme Dragons' Den earlier this year. Paul Thomas turned down money...
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It's no wonder the ladies needed smelling salts
It is amazing what passed for a surgeon's instrument in Victorian England. The "Vee-Dee electro-massage machine", an intriguing device that is likely to have caused much amusement more than a century...
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Fresh blow to federal future
University College London came one step closer to breaking away from the University of London this week when it decided to use its new degree awarding powers - granted in September and currently held...
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Ask the party doctor: Yes, boors with BO can make it
Wary of parties? Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers advice on avoiding faux pas, while Anna Fazackerley discovers the secrets of a supreme networker Dear Professor Fernández-Armesto, I consider myself...
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Even a social animal had to learn to use the schmooze
Wary of parties? Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers advice on avoiding faux pas, while Anna Fazackerley discovers the secrets of a supreme networker When scientist Nancy Lane graduated from Oxford...
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UCL researchers hope for a spark of chemistry on first date
Forget playing hard to get - researchers at University College London were this week encouraged to talk about the Big Bang on a first date, writes Anna Fazackerley. The university hosted its first...
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Research by public could be 'unreliable'
The increasing use of the lay public as researchers in studies on issues that affect them could be producing unreliable research findings, a conference heard this week. Social scientists at the...
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UK loses out to Asia on business cash
Funding of university research by UK businesses has stalled as companies plough more money into research in China and India, according to the Council for Industry in Higher Education, writes Claire...