Exposure in the ebb tide
John Bayley has written a memoir of his wife, Iris Murdoch, who now has Alzheimer's. He tells Harriet Swain why in it he has chosen to reveal some of the most intimate details of her life Fig leaves...
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Less death in the lab
Scientists perform fewer experiments on animals than they have for 30 years. But plans to transplant pig hearts into chimpanzees (box) are likely to inflame animal rights protesters. Alison Goddard...
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The heart of the debate
Less death in the lab How would a chimp react to having a pig's heart inside it? That sort of question exercises Michael Banner (pictured), chair of the government's Animal Procedures Committee. His...
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Rome
Italian universities are under instructions to start organising courses in line with the "Sorbonne Agreement" signed with France, Britain and Germany in Paris in May. The idea is to harmonise...
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Eye witness
Millions of birds are beginning their annual migration from Northern Europe to their wintering grounds in the Mediterranean and Africa. The journey is tough enough at the best of times, especially...
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The salaries league table begins
It is only a matter of time before pay is ranked by subject, says Andrew Oswald Professors of computing, economics or chemistry may soon earn much more than professors of music, art or languages in...
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Avoiding future shock
Pensions in higher and further education are undergoing their biggest reforms in 20 years. Harriet Swain reports. Tomorrow's academic OAPs will retire into a new pensions world thanks to a thorough...
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Meditations on identity in the spaceland of MOO
HIGH WIRED: On the Design, Use and Theory of Educational MOOs Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik University of Michigan Press 342pp Pounds 34.00 and Pounds 14.50. ISBN 0 472 09665 6 and 0 472 06665...
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Electric touch
(Photograph) - A plasma globe at the Herstmonceux Science Centre near Hailsham in East Sussex responding to touch. The centre occupies the telescope domes abandoned by the Royal Greenwich Observatory...
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Centre for whether we are what we eat
The Medical Research Council is setting up a resource centre for nutrition research in Cambridge employing up to 70 staff.
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Meningitis vaccine in the pipeline
The Department of Health, the Meningitis Research Foundation and National Meningitis Foundation has launched a meningitis awareness campaign. A vaccine is in the pipeline.
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Get virtual, v-cs urged
Vice-chancellors hold their annual meeting in Manchester next week. Tony Tysome reports. British universities are facing "very serious challenges" from global and corporate competitors, vice-...
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Cash carrot to enforce training
Lecturers may be pressurised by their employers into joining the new Institute for Learning and Teaching. Next week vice-chancellors will consider a draft prospectus that says that the proportion of...
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Meaning of ILT membership
Membership will not be mandatory - for the time being. However institutions could make membership a condition of employment or promotion. The objective is for all institutions to provide an...
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Scotland steams ahead
Scotland is leading the United Kingdom in its progress towards national education and training targets. The annual report from the Advisory Scottish Council for Education and Training Targets says...