A Christmas gift for scientists
Lord Sainsbury has been telling friends that as long as Tony Blair remains keen for him to stay on as Science Minister, he will remain in the role until at least Christmas. This will please the...
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Prize guise
When Luton University found itself in the press again last month over previous deficits, Les Ebdon, the vice-chancellor, sent students a memo to reassure them. Among a list of accolades, including...
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A dead-good excuse
A mark grid for the MSc maths finance displayed on a notice board at Warwick University has the following footnote: "**Authorised absence. Death certificate provided."
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It all adds up to indoctrination
Meanwhile, a professor of maths at Warwick was puzzled to hear frequent complaints from the two British youngsters doing the Warwick teaching certificate, but none from their two colleagues from the...
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Timothy walker is drawn to the budding artists of biology
'The verisimilitude of Vicky Cox's White Onion and Skin makes you reach for the knife and the chopping board' a new flowering - 1,000 years of botanical art Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to September 11...
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Why I...
It is estimated that one in four students will experience some form of mental distress during their time at university and with more than 2 million students in higher education, it is clear that...
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Sanctions can work...
The AUT boycott is part of a tradition of non-violent protest, argue Hilary Rose and Steven Rose Just 50 years ago, six years after the call from the African National Congress, 496 British academics...
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Skills, bills and the will to study
John Widdowson believes that part-time learners have been forgotten in the higher education debate The debate on the future of higher education in further education colleges has centred in the past...
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Biocentre unites all in seeking key to life
Physicists, mathematicians, engineers, computing experts and chemists are crossing traditional disciplinary boundaries to join the quest to unravel the meaning of life. The £36 million Manchester...
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Academy sees Society with no divisions
Society , a new journal to be launched next year by the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, will aim to publish papers that cut across social sciences boundaries. Some academics...
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Major research funders welcome advent of biological science research archive
A freely accessible digital archive of UK research papers in the biological sciences came a step closer to realisation this week as applications were sought to run UK PubMed Central. Research funders...
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Scientists at Oxford fear lab closures
Two of the world's largest and most prestigious science departments, Oxford University's physics and chemistry faculties, face a funding crisis that is threatening jobs and laboratory space. Some...
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Hood writes to reassure worried staff over planned changes to governance
John Hood, the vice-chancellor of Oxford University, has written to staff to try to head off a revolt over plans to overhaul the university's decision-making system and library services and to...
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Ulster council to consider confidential report into v-c's management
Ulster University's council is expected to consider a confidential report investigating complaints about the management methods of Gerry McKenna, the vice-chancellor, next week. Professor McKenna,...
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UCLan bid to restore chemistry provision
The University of Central Lancashire is planning to reopen the chemistry department it closed six years ago, bucking the national trend to cut provision in the field. UCLan is now recruiting chemists...