Blue-sky thinking that led to an astronomical ambition
Profile: Lisa Jardine-Wright astrophysicist, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Lisa Jardine-Wright is on a mission: to change the image of physics, writes Rebecca Attwood. With the number of...
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Gates cash for Durham
Three Durham University researchers will share in a grant of almost £10 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to study malaria. Gerry Killeen, Ulrike Fillinger and Steve Lindsay from the...
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Cardiff's green honour
Researchers at Cardiff University have won the Envirowise Green Chemistry Award. The team, led by physical chemistry professor Graham Hutchings, received the honour for research into more sustainable...
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Make it a touch better
With some ailments, you really can rub it better, according to Cumbria University research. An ongoing study of 300 clients for the Centre for Complementary Care in Muncaster, Cumbria, shows that...
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Wellcome PhD fillip
The Wellcome Trust has announced a cash injection of £137 million over nine years for postgraduate biomedical research training. The money will be used to extend the trust's four-year PhDs for...
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Eastwood favours light touch over discipline
Responsiveness and flexibility are key to institutions' success, Hefce chief executive tells Melanie Newman. Universities will not be allowed to fail in future but some may have to shrink in size,...
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Tribunal sets aside MMU racism decision
An employment tribunal that found that Manchester Metropolitan University had racially discriminated against a lecturer - even though he had not attended the hearing - has had its findings set aside...
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NHS to slash time for checks
University researchers conducting research across different National Health Service organisations should see red tape cut substantially after it was announced that a single new system for dealing...
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Young hit the hardest by Japanese funding shift
Japan's Government wants higher education to be more commercially focused, but pursuit of that goal is putting a strain on academics and darkening career prospects for young researchers. Nobuko Hara...
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World Encompassed
Stanford questions rumsfeld fellowship Stanford University's staff governing body was this week due to meet with the director of the university's Hoover Institution to discuss the controversial...
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Academe is guilty of institutional cowardice
Richard Reynolds is appalled at the failure to defend the right to debate academics' unpleasant viewpoints. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." The...
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Ruth Scurr: 'More than lust at a rare first edition, what I felt was
Last summer, I read my way through Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time , determined to reach number ten in the 12-volume sequence: Books Do Furnish a Room. Even Powell's devoted fans (among...
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Peep's Diary
Wot u doing on Web 2.0? An anonymous US academic, writing on a blog called Rate My Student, is disturbed by tutors who spend too much time on Facebook. "My colleague across the hall is always talking...
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Faith is no barrier to intelligent discourse
Academics are wary of mooting ideas rooted in their belief for fear of raising secular hackles. It's time to argue for our convictions, says Joseph Mintz. Universities are places where freedom of...
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Young and old must carve out a shared future
Genuinely taking on board age discrimination legislation poses a serious challenge for academe, says John Macnicol. The recent resignation of Menzies Campbell as Liberal Democrat leader raised...