Device tracks pigeon home
The secrets of homing pigeons are set to be revealed after the creation of an ultra-lightweight flight recorder that uses satellite tracking to plot each bird's exact course. The matchbox-sized...
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Bitter ideology united killers
The mass murderers of the Nazi regime were ideologically motivated Germans who were inured to their crimes by a spiral of political violence, according to the first systematic analysis of the chief...
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How to... Enrich a teaching portfolio
David Baume advises on how to inject a bit of soul into the bare facts that sketch a career. It takes years, even decades, to build a good research career, but it is a record of achievement that is...
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Would it work here?
The essence of the University of Wisconsin system is that institutions, even prestigious, research-intensive ones, have more to gain than to lose by, in effect, pooling their sovereignty and...
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Creative Brit lands top South African post
British statistician Norma Reid has swept aside local contenders to win selection as head of South Africa's largest university, the University of the Wi****ersrand. Professor Reid, also known as Lady...
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Asteroid hazard prompts cash call
Peers have called on the government to provide funds to avert the potential threat of asteroids and other space debris colliding with the Earth. Earlier this month, the government announced a package...
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Bursary shock for medics
Fast-track medical students on a flagship government scheme are set to lose thousands of pounds in National Health Service bursaries following a ruling that they will be means-tested on their parents...
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Latest UK news
Crisis highlights 'need for science' The countrywide foot-and-mouth crisis illustrates the importance of science in everyday life, the president of the British Association for the Advancement of...
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Latest international news
Nigeria confronts university decay Nigeria’s federal government has set up a committee on university autonomy and related matters to tackle the decay in the country's universities.  ...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Researchers at University College London surveyed 600 employees of the Property Services Agency, which was privatised in the mid-1990s, and found that privatisation is bad for your...
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Laurie Taylor
Hard-up academics are being lured from the lecture hall to the classroom to help schools cope with teacher shortages - THES , March 9. Good morning, class 3b. My name is Lapping. I am your new...
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Letter: 'Ducking' UUK keeps powder dry (1)
I must reject claims of "paralysis" at Universities UK after our recent meeting in Newcastle ("V-cs attacked for ducking fight for cash", THES, March 9). Nothing could be further from the truth. The...
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Letter: 'Ducking' UUK keeps powder dry (2)
It is not surprising that UUK is ducking out of a fight with the government over funding. Vice-chancellors, like much of British academe, lack a crucial weapon in any contest: the willingness to...
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Letter: 'Ducking' UUK keeps powder dry (3)
The failure of vice-chancellors to fight for more funding comes as no surprise. The way they have squeezed staff salaries and hounded students for debt suggests they are more intent on reducing...
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Letter: 'Ducking' UUK keeps powder dry (4)
Sir Howard Newby may see "no point in pressing for specific proposals on funding" because he no doubt believes that the "budget boosts funding" and "universities will benefit from a raft of measures...