The games of life
Online computer games enhance rather than constrict young people's imagination, new research suggests. Simon Bradford and Nic Crowe of Brunel University conducted a three-month study of 13 to 16-year...
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Aphids hit back
Greenflies have a chemical defence system that allows them to disable attacking predators by setting off a deadly mustard "bomb", according to new research. A study involving scientists at Imperial...
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NEET discrimination
An academic at Manchester Metropolitan University has criticised government figures for young people classified as "not in employment, education or training" (NEET), claiming that they are misleading...
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Care study wins funds
Researchers at Bradford University have received £60,000 from the Parkinson's Disease Society to study ways of improving residential care for those living with Parkinson's disease. Researchers will...
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Northampton and London South Bank universities
* In the list of institutions that had submitted an entry to this year's Times Higher awards published in last week's paper, we omitted Northampton and London South Bank universities. We can confirm...
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Patricia Soley-Beltran
* Patricia Soley-Beltran, who was mentioned in "People" last week, took her PhD in the sociology of gender and science, and not on modelling, as we reported.
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'The norms have changed'
JEFFREY WEEKS EXECUTIVE DEAN, ARTS and human SCIENCES, LONDON SOUTH BANK One of the best-known catchphrases from the television comedy Little Britain is the character Daffyd's chippy insistence that...
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World Encompassed
Texas A&M loses bacteria licences The Center for Disease Control in the US has suspended a university's licence to work with two bacteria after the institution took more than a year to report...
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Disclosure, not exposure, is still our best bet
"Almost 50 universities at risk of financial collapse", the headline promised. "Universities in peril", forecast another. The reaction was predictable. Politicians were quick to argue that students...
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Here's an initiative: leave us to come up with ideas
Does the new tightly focused ministry signal a more meddlesome approach? Michael Shattock hopes not The creation of a new government department with "universities" in its title can be seen as a...
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Innovation needs some fresh ideas
DIUS offers Whitehall a real chance to make changes for the better, says James Wilsdon It is easy to exaggerate the significance of changes to the machinery of government. Novel acronyms and fresh...
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Darling, can you help?
The UK's newest university, Queen Margaret in Edinburgh, last week installed Sir Tom Farmer CBE, the entrepreneur and philanthropist, as its founding chancellor. In town that day, he was accosted by...
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Beware good burghers
Advice from an elder at Queen Margaret's inauguration ceremony: keep an eye on the local authority. Edinburgh University still mourns the loss of its original 1640 silver mace, reportedly stolen on...
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Masters of the poly-verse
Geoffrey Alderman, the former Middlesex University quality chief, has let slip a fascinating insight into university management in the Jerusalem Post last week. "Polytechnics did not enjoy academic...
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Steaming the world
The gap year is clearly not a recent innovation. The University of Sunderland Press has just published From Tyne to Tsar: A Cargo Steamer's Voyage in 1905 , a young Edwardian's account of the SS...