Shameless students put tutors in e-mail hell
Students once would only dare to approach a lecturer with a meek knock and a humble "Excuse me, professor". But now they bombard lecturers with e-mail messages at all hours of the day to make banal...
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'Some people are biologically more resilient to stress than others'
Avshalom Caspi, winner of the Wolfson Research Merit Award, will use the money for his research into stress Moving to the UK a decade ago paid off handsomely for Avshalom Caspi, of the Institute of...
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Wolfson winners
* The winners of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award are: Avshalom Caspi of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London; Xiangqian Jiang of Huddersfield University; Varinder...
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Ellis case first test of race act
New laws have put Leeds University under notice to take action against lecturer Frank Ellis over his comments on race and IQ in an episode that has split opinion. Claire Sanders reports Leeds is...
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Budget surprise signals research funding revamp
Chancellor Gordon Brown this week announced the biggest potential shake-up of research funding in a generation. In his 2006 budget speech, he said that the Government would merge the Medical Research...
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Remove ads for clinical trials, student job shops told
Student job centres have been told to take down advertisements seeking people to test drugs in the wake of the clinical trial in London that left six men seriously ill. The National Association of...
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NUS told 'oppose boycott'
An emergency motion calling on student leaders to review their uncritical support for lecturers' industrial action will be submitted for debate at the National Union of Students' annual conference...
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Chemistry closure 'unviable'
The manager who devised Sussex University's plan to close its chemistry department has admitted that his scheme was "intellectually unviable" and "unworkable". The admission by Jonathan Bacon, dean...
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Southampton to cut 14 jobs in biology
Southampton University is set to cut a third of the academic staff in its School of Biological Sciences in a shake-up of the discipline, writes Anthea Lipsett. The university's council was to ratify...
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MPs attack expert's bias
MPs attacked the Government this week for appointing the Cambridge University professor who invented iris-scanning technology to the independent scientific group advising the Home Office on ID cards...
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Eye spy
MPs are unhappy that an academic advising the Government on iris-scanning technology for ID cards, John Daugman, has a commercial interest in its adoption and 'rubbishes anyone', such as Simon Davies...
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UK lags in research spending
UK spending on research continues to lag behind competitor countries, but British scientists have a disproportionately big impact, according to the Department of Trade and Industry, writes Anna...
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Population dip could spark crisis
Less prestigious universities may face a crisis in student recruitment after 2010 due to falling numbers of 18 to 20-year-olds, according to a new report. The Higher Education Policy Institute...
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Protesters lose appeal
Six students who interrupted a conference at Lancaster University in protest over "unethical" university business links have lost their appeal against an aggravated trespass conviction. The students...
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Newport city campus
The University of Wales, Newport has been given the green light to build a new campus in Newport's city centre. The development will be the first phase in a planned £50 million expansion. The campus...