Virologists hatch plan to beat bird flu
Virologists at Cambridge University have teamed up with scientists from the Roslin Institute to create genetically modified chickens that can resist the lethal H5N1 avian flu virus, writes Yfke van...
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Budget rejig could harm art holdings
Curators are calling for the £9 million system of "ring-fenced" grants for university museums and galleries to be protected amid fears that changes to the funding regime will see budgets for art...
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Next week
Letters, libraries and Larkin Roger McGough recalls rare words of encouragement from the notoriously curmudgeonly Philip Larkin at Hull University
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Pay windfall at Dundee
Minimum lecturing salaries will rise 15 per cent at Dundee University as it becomes the first Scottish institution to establish the new pay framework. New lecturers will earn a minimum salary of £28,...
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Oxford paper pulped
Oxford University ordered the destruction of last week's issue of its student newspaper after it published leaked material from a student disciplinary case. Oxford Student journalists Patrick Foster...
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Private halls sold off
Halls of residence in Manchester, Aberdeen and Glasgow were sold this week for £57 million. University Partnerships Programme - formerly part of Jarvis - sold property housing 1,386 students to...
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Bringing us all to book
A genetics landmark was passed this week with the publication of a catalogue of human genetic variation by the International HapMap Consortium. Oxford University and the Wellcome Trust Sanger...
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Degrees of success
The Government was this week due to publish research into the early careers of graduates who left university in 1999. A team from the the University of the West of England and the Institute for...
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UK fears Europe control
Leading figures in British science are trying to wrestle the new European Research Council away from the European Commission's control. The exact governance arrangements of the new European council,...
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Concern over fee report's low profile
Fears were growing this week that an official report on graduate recruitment to the professions will "fudge" the issue of the impact on the jobs market of variable tuition fees and student debt,...
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Universities cool on invitation to help run new trust schools
Universities are unlikely to want to get "deeply involved" in running schools, the Government was warned this week as it unveiled education reform plans. A White Paper published on Tuesday by Ruth...
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Liverpool set for final China deal
Liverpool University is close to finalising a deal to build the last foreign campus in China for the foreseeable future. The venture, expected to get the go-ahead next year, involves a unique...
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Cinema classic
The late film director Stanley Kubrick's archives have been donated to the University of the Arts London, it was announced this week. They include scripts, costumes, props and equipment used for...
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Cambridge to ballot on IP reforms
The latest bid to reform the rules on how Cambridge University academics make money from their ideas could destroy trust between staff and their postgraduates, critics of the plans claimed this week...
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Oxford critics round on Patten
Oxford University academics are circulating a letter that criticises their chancellor's unprecedented warning to Cambridge University about its future. Chris Patten last week warned heads of...