Blog confidential: Insistence and resistance
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Insistence and resistance
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Appointments
University of Edinburgh, Greg WalkerThe Regius chair of rhetoric and English literature at the University of Edinburgh will be filled by Greg Walker, who was been Masson professor of English at the...
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Array of errors, but Spanish chemist stands by concept
Watchdog recommends retraction of Science paper after 'indications' of bad practice. Paul Jump writes
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Happy smiling deans make for bad websites
Business schools are "wasting valuable selling space" by making amateurish marketing mistakes such as using pictures of their deans as a key selling point on their websites.A catalogue of the web-...
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News in brief
Grant incomeMore books, more cashAn independent study funded by the journal publisher Elsevier has found a correlation between investment in university library collections and grant income. The study...
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Class of 2010 follows US lead
Graduating students at Loughborough kick-start American-style gift scheme. Hannah Fearn reports
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University of East Anglia - Data from the deep
An underwater robot is being used by scientists to monitor the ocean off the coast of Spain. The £150,000 robotic glider is remotely controlled by scientists 900 miles away at the University of East...
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Royal Holloway, University of London - Lost chords are found
Lost musical scores from silent films have been rediscovered. Julie Brown, senior lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London's department of music, uncovered the British scores in attics and...
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University of Dundee - Remembering Sir D'Arcy
Three days of events are planned to mark the 150th birthday of Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, the Edinburgh-born biologist, mathematician and classicist. The scholar will be remembered at the...
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Robert Gordon University - Legal foundation
A new law qualification is to be introduced in Scotland to help master's students kick-start a career in construction law. Candidates at the Robert Gordon University studying for an LLM/MSc in...
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University of Nottingham - Arts for psychiatry's sake
Reading novels and poetry should form part of the education of mental-health doctors and nurses in order to improve their empathy with patients. That is the view of Victoria Tischler, lecturer in the...
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University of Liverpool - Participation? It's child's play
A "toy academic" called Professor Fluffy features in a showcase of best practice in widening participation. The University of Liverpool launched its International Centre for Educational Opportunities...
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University of Hull - Lies, damned lies and memories
One-fifth of students at the University of Hull have false memories, a study indicates. Researchers from the university's psychology department surveyed 1,600 students in the first empirical study...
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King's College London - Brain-scan breakthrough
Scientists funded by the Medical Research Council have developed a new rapid method of diagnosing autism in adults. For the first time, a quick brain scan that takes just 15 minutes can identify...
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Cardiff University - Digital ballads
Welsh ballads from the 18th and 19th centuries once sung on street corners can now be heard online. A project run by Cardiff University and the National Library of Wales has captured 4,000 of the...