Growing old is a happy experience
Growing old is a happier experience than many of us imagine, according to the findings of a study conducted at Queen's University Belfast.The study, which was carried out by John Garry from Queen's...
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Overseas briefing
ߣߣÊÓƵBig pay reduces student numbersThe ߣߣÊÓƵn resources boom is being blamed for falling university applications. Applications fell more than 2 per cent this year, a decline attributed to...
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Canada gains in the global game
Overseas student applications contribute to record enrolment figures. John Gill reports
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ESRC cuts red tape that deters cross-border collaborations
Talks with overseas agencies about common review criteria could herald borderless funding, reports Zoe Corbyn
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Grant winners
European Research CouncilForty-one UK researchers have won European Research Council "starting independent research grants". Below we publish details of 18 winners, following on from the details of...
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Particle-perfect
James Stirling relishes his return to research as he anticipates the dawn of a new golden era of particle physics
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Appointments
Peter Strike has taken up the post of deputy vice-chancellor for research and enterprise at Northumbria University. The geneticist and bioscientist joins from Napier University, where he was vice-...
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Middle-class altruism is not all it may seem
The academic who helped show how the better-off get more from comprehensive schools than the poor tells Melanie Newman of his experience of the class divide
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Bursting the God balloon
Science can say what caused an event to occur, but not what caused reality to be such that it did, Michael Bulley observes
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The kids aren't all write: functionally illiterate and frankly not bothered
Orientation classes for first-years offer a chilling insight into an entire cohort's lack of spelling and grammar skills, says a university lecturer
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A climate of trepidation
The humanities are told to embrace business agendas and climate change. Geoffrey Alderman is filled with dread at the implications
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Blind student accuses OU of discrimination
The Open University has been accused of discrimination by a blind student who claims his teaching materials were inaccessible.Douglas Hutchison, 56, has contacted the Equality and Human Rights...
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Love of learning lost in 'studying for jobs'
Anglia Ruskin head says 'Treasury-motivated' policy fosters instrumentalist view, writes Rebecca Attwood
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UK space policy holds out flicker of hope for human flight
A long-awaited government strategy on the UK's vision for space makes no commitment to human space flight, as had been hoped by many space scientists. But the strategy to 2012 does agree to a study...
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Low compliance with open-access rule criticised
Too few research papers are making it into the public domain, study finds. Zoe Corbyn reports.