Stormy weather ahead in the med
Global warming could trigger hurricanes in the Mediterranean, a team of Spanish and German academics has warned. Researchers from the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo and the Max Planck...
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Bologna process to be global model?
Countries around the world are looking to a European shake-up of higher education as a model for reform of their own systems, a conference was told. Michael Gaebel of the European University...
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Papa's Cats get health and fitness mot
An animal behaviour expert nicknamed the "cat whispurrer" is being drafted in to help after a row over the fate of 47 cats roaming author Ernest Hemingway's former home. Terry Curtis of Florida...
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Why our feet are made for walking
Chimps walking a on a treadmill have provided a clue as to why humans evolved to walk upright. Researchers from the University of Arizona, University of California-Davis and Washington University in...
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Microsoft provides research fillip
Microsoft has unveiled more than £3 million of funding for research in universities. More than £1.8 million will go to six areas where it seeks research proposals including tools using mobile phones...
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Robotic mining tested in australia
Mining giant Rio Tinto has agreed to fund one of the world's largest civilian robotics centres. The Centre for Mine Automation at the University of Sydney, which will have £2 million funding a year,...
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Gene variation points to heart disease
A common genetic variation is linked to a substantial increase in the risk of heart attacks, US researchers have found. The team at Emory University's School of Medicine, Duke University and the...
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Mental health research in Oz
A new ߣߣÊÓƵn research centre for mental health and wellbeing has been launched. The McCaughey Centre: VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing at Melbourne...
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Restless legs could be relegated to past
Relief may be at hand, thanks to German researchers, for millions of people kept awake by twitching legs. Teams at the Max Plank Institute of Psychiatry and Munich's Technical University and National...
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Zeiss sponsors photonics chair
Leading optical firm Carl Zeiss has sponsored a professorship at a German university. A junior professorship in advanced computational photonics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Friedrich...
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Better security urged in US
FBI agents are advising universities on keeping data secure against terrorism. The regional head of the US chief domestic law enforcement agency, the FBI, was personally at the head of the line of...
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National pay bargaining: an uncertain future
Pay is the biggest single cost for a university. But despite its overwhelming importance for the finances of any institution, most have been happy for decades to outsource the negotiations that...
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The stakes are high, the proposals must be firm
Ron Dearing outlines the factors the Government should consider in its promised funding review in 2009. The Review of Higher Education I led ten years ago was prompted by the compelling need to...
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'At risk' of not delivering for our students
Hefce must publish current data on institutions' financial health, insists Geoffrey Alderman. Earlier this month, under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, the media obtained access to...
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Knocked for socks
Former Prime Minister John Major's reputation for greyness was ruined during his recent appearance at Queen Mary, University of London, to talk about his new book on cricket. Sir John was wearing a...