The many doors between two parallel worlds
Different Engines
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Reality bumps while the vision bounces
Best for Britain?The End of Decline
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Fear the attacker but don't panic
On Nuclear Terrorism
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True believers and the violence of faith
Bad Faith
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Listening in on trunk calls
The Elephant's Secret Sense
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Cancellation blues
Birmingham University has been accused of neglecting students on a condemned course in order to focus on more academically prestigious areas. The university announced last year that it was scrapping...
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French exchange
University reform was in the spotlight when the president of Universities UK took part in a debate with the French Prime Minister, Francois Fillon. Rick Trainor and other European university leaders...
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Publishing needs
The role of publishers in higher education will be debated at a conference for academics, students, librarians and authors. The Publishers Association conference, co-presented by The Times Higher,...
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Focus on mediation
The UK's first university-based mediation clinic will be launched by Canterbury Christ Church University in January. The clinic, which is backed by Canterbury County Court, has received an £18,000...
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Second thoughts
Leicester University has launched a research project to identify the educational benefits of virtual worlds - in the web-based virtual world Second Life. This week it established an "experimental...
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Zoonosis centre opens
A centre for research into animal-borne diseases that can spread to humans has opened at Liverpool University. The Centre for Zoonosis Research will study diseases such as severe acute respiratory...
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Bath's prized podcasts
Bath University was presented with a European Excellence Award for podcasts of its lectures at a ceremony in Berlin last week. In its entry submission to the awards, which honour corporate...
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Royal red carpet
The Royal College of Music has announced a new collaboration with Princeton University that will allow young musicians from the US to study in London. Under the initiative, Princeton students will...
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Watson joins council
Robert Watson, chief scientific adviser to the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, joined the Council for the Natural Environment Research Council at the beginning of this month....
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Terror policy critiqued
Counter-terrorism efforts in the UK are failing, according to a Birmingham academic. In a new book, The British War on Terror, Steve Hewitt, a lecturer and security specialist at Birmingham...