Warburg Institute Library awarded $1m
The Warburg Institute Library, part of London University's School of Advanced Study, has received the first $1 million (£684,000) award from the new Dan David Prize. The library was recognised for...
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Collaboration enables online experiments
Students are carrying out experiments using an expensive piece of chemical engineering equipment via the web, thanks to collaboration between scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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Leicester fuels fever with World Cup website
Soccer experts at Leicester University have compiled a web resource on the World Cup that provides facts and figures on almost every aspect of the tournament. Researchers at the Sir Norman Chester...
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Correction
Sussex University has asked us to point out that its strategic review, currently under way, is not focused on cutting jobs and that there is no target number for job losses, contrary to a report in...
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Radical plans for overhaul of funding
MPs will offer the government stark choices on student funding, with higher tuition fees, a steeper interest rate on loans and graduate contributions among the likely options. Barry Sheerman,...
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Education rejuvenated in rejig
Young blood was transfused into the education department this week with the appointment of former student leader Stephen Twigg and ex-policy adviser David Miliband. Mr Twigg, 35, a former president...
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Peer review backs Daresbury's bid to secure its future
Daresbury Laboratory's bid to secure its future by building a world-leading light source has received a crucial vote of approval. After successful peer review, the chief executives of the research...
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Anger at Salford over job losses
Lecturers at Salford University are threatening to withhold exam results after it emerged this week that compulsory redundancies are being considered to ensure that 70 jobs are axed by September. A...
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Bristol University is to reorganise its six academic faculties
* Bristol University is to reorganise its six academic faculties, writes Caroline Davis. The arts, engineering and science faculties will remain unchanged but medicine will be split into medical...
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Answer to avoiding brain damage may be in the air all around us
Scientists have found that a rare component of air could prevent some of the most common forms of brain damage. The protective powers of xenon were revealed by Mervyn Maze, professor of anaesthetics...
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Allegiance to duty in a realm of the capricious
The Kings and Queens of England
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an essay that inspired Gandhi and Martin Luther King: "I heartily accept the motto, - 'That government...
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Moral take on tots and technology
Oversold and underused
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Port not claret in plastic age
The History of the University of Oxford, Volume III, Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 2
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Laurie Taylor
Concern grows over casualisation of university teaching - THES May 24 . Good morning. Dons U Like. Good morning. My name is Professor Lapping. University of Poppleton. We have a bit of a crisis. One...