King's College London - New way to the heart
An MRI scan has been successfully used in place of X-ray imaging in an operation to widen a heart valve. The technique involves using a new fibreglass guide wire to direct a catheter through a blood...
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Royal Holloway/Lancaster - Driven to distraction
The potential dangers of "sat-navs" are being studied by a team of psychologists at Royal Holloway, University of London and spatial scientists at Lancaster University. Although the use of mobile...
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Kent/Ghent - Rhyming couple get closer
A memorandum of understanding has been signed by the universities of Kent and Ghent. Julia Goodfellow, Kent's vice-chancellor, signed the deal during a visit to the Belgian university to bolster...
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The Open University - Matter of birth and life
A new distance-learning programme for Ethiopia's 31,000 rural community health workers has been awarded $4 million (£2.4 million) by the United Nations Children's Fund. A cohort of 1,000 community...
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University of Wolverhampton - Survivor's hidden childhood
A concentration camp survivor who was hidden by friends close to Anne Frank's house was due to give the University of Wolverhampton's annual Holocaust lecture this week. Martin Stern was set to give...
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University of Leeds - Junk reigns in the lunch box
British children eat 5.5 billion packed lunches a year, but research from the University of Leeds shows that only 1 per cent of their lunch boxes are suitably nutritional. The study, commissioned by...
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University of Bolton - Changing the narrative
A programme at the University of Bolton aims to have an impact on the statistic that 75 per cent of children in state care leave school with no qualifications - and less than one in 100 go on to...
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Stay frosty
The recent cold snap saw the burden of lectures, essay marking and research impact proposals fleetingly forgotten for the delights of snowmen, snow angels and snowball fights. Although the sub-zero...
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Odds and quads
This is one of the few complete skeletons of Megaloceros giganteus, the largest member of the deer family known to science.Though sometimes called an "Irish elk", the animal ranged across Europe and...
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Plymouth's 'enterprising' spirit is called into question
Businessman complains to ASA over 'misleading' brand slogan. Hannah Fearn reports
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Overseas briefing
ChinaChinese burns for Yale benefactorA Chinese graduate who made an $8,888,888 (£5,444,076) donation to Yale University has sparked an online backlash by overlooking his home alma mater. Zhang Lei...
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China spends as Uncle Sam tightens the purse strings
Forum reveals key divergence in approaches to academy funding. John Morgan reports
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILAward winner: Mark PollardInstitution: University of OxfordValue: £426,125Below the salt: a study of the human remains and associated material from the salt mine...
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Sporting glory
Gregory Ioannidis has more than just legal theory to share with his students - he also has an interesting case history
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Appointments
The director of the Institute of Education, University of London is to retire after a decade in the post. Geoff Whitty, an expert on education policy, teacher education and curriculums, started the...