Student's stuntmen join march into Troy
For his latest role as Achilles in the war epic Troy , Hollywood hunk Brad Pitt has had help not only from a body double with muscular legs, but also from PhD student Torsten Reil. The Oxford...
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Mickey Mouse? More like Dickens
The retiring vice-chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University used his farewell lecture to mount a powerful defence of so-called Mickey Mouse degree courses, claiming that some of the more popular TV...
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Bristol bucks trend in Asian study
Bristol University is opening an East Asian studies department barely a month after Durham University announced plans to close its department, writes Caroline Davis. In contrast to several...
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Part-time work a boost for CVs
University careers services could play a much wider role in helping students become employable by helping them to recognise the skills they are gaining through part-time work that they do alongside...
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Welsh funding chiefs try to sharpen up their access act
Higher education funding heads have admitted that using postcodes to draw up performance targets and allocate cash premiums for widening participation is a blunt instrument. Maps showing...
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Science review uncovers GM angst
Research into genetic modification is at a crossroads after the publication of the first report of the independent GM science review this week. The report by a panel of experts has found no...
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Physicists put pressure on Clarke as departments continue to close
Universities across the country have lobbied education secretary Charles Clarke to move to save academic physics research. The Institute of Physics and the heads of 37 physics departments wrote to Mr...
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Cancer research 'revived' by merger
Rumours of culture clashes and cracks in the newly merged Cancer Research UK were firmly quashed this week by chief executive Alex Markham in an exclusive interview with The THES . He said that the...
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Charities say 'no way' to extra costs
Universities are deluding themselves if they think medical research charities are ever going to pay research overheads, leading figures in the charity sector warned this week. The Office of Science...
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AUT condemns Swansea transfer as 'political fix'
Academic union leaders have threatened to "greylist", Swansea University in protest against a decision to hand over its teacher training to Swansea Institute of Higher Education in exchange for...
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Have you met Mr. Menace at No.13?
Youngsters across the world will shortly be able to live next door to the likes of Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Mink and the Bash Street Kids in Beanotown, following a project by students at the...
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Bradford merger collapses
A plan to create the UK's first "comprehensive" university by merging Bradford University and Bradford College fell apart this week after 20 months of negotiations. In a joint statement the two...
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Long courtships leave space to backtrack
News of the collapse of merger talks between Bradford University and Bradford College has caused little surprise in the sector, writes Tony Tysome. University managers who have been through the...
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Whistleblowers: Architecture students threaten lawsuit
De Montfort University could face mass legal action from as many as 240 architecture students after it lost professional accreditation for a number of its architecture courses as a result of low...
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Popper 'falsified' old ideas
Alison Goddard reports on revelations and revels at the annual meeting of British philosophers in Belfast Sir Karl Popper, the philosopher who devised a test to distinguish between science and...