1,500 courses cut without job losses
Students are to be offered less choice at Anglia Polytechnic University from 2006 as the number of course options will be cut from 2,000 to 500. David Tidmarsh, the vice-chancellor, said the move...
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Scientists fail to see eye to eye over girl's 'X-ray vision'
A Nobel prizewinning scientist has clashed with one of Britain's leading experts on the paranormal in a row over the purported talents of a Russian schoolgirl who claims she uses X-ray vision to...
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Next week
Wheels of fortune Lisa Jardine assesses technology's impact on history Coming soon The Poppleton Awards for Notorious Teachingand Scholarship
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Meningitis warning
New guidelines about how universities should deal with a meningitis outbreak have been issued amid warnings that first-year students are most at risk. Universities UK said that 2,000 cases of...
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Welsh top-ups option
Welsh vice-chancellors have warned that top-up fees may be inevitable in Wales to stop academics fleeing universities for better funded English institutions. Higher Education Wales, which represents...
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Enterprise effort
Sir Brian Fender, chairman of commercialisation company BTG and former chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, is leading an initiative to formalise the knowledge-...
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Reaching a healthy 100
The City of Edinburgh's battle against disease and illness over the past 100 years is the subject of a book launched at Edinburgh University this week. Public Health: Past, Present and Future was...
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Stolen kisses recover the past
Snogging on the back seat of the local cinema is just one of the cherished memories being recorded by Christy Evans as part of a University of Central Lancashire community arts project. Now Ms Evans...
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Clarke calls for credit framework by 2010
A national system allowing students, academics and employers to measure and compare degree performance should be in place by the end of the decade, Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, has said....
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Child sex researcher had ban on his record
A researcher accused of "playing into the hands" of paedophiles with a PhD thesis describing positive experiences of sex between children and adults is a former teacher who was struck off the...
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Turner winner's tribute
Jeremy Deller, the artist who won this year's Turner prize, paid tribute to his former Sussex University tutor, David Mellor, this week, writes Caroline Davis. "David was the reason I came to Sussex...
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Oxford eases penalty on student hackers
Two Oxford University student journalists who were suspended after they hacked into the university's computer system to expose security flaws have had their punishments reduced on appeal, writes Phil...
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Access study to ignore medics
A government report on how to widen access to key public-sector professions will no longer look at medicine, despite evidence that medical school applications are still dominated by the highest...
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Will UK soon be lost for words on world stage?
Charles Clarke stresses the importance of minority languages, while key modern languages are allowed to decline. Anthea Lipsett reports on mixed messages "No one could speak Arabic in the Central...
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Global developments mean Anglophone insularity needs to be tackled
Galina Yemelianova , a Russian specialist in Arabic and Islamic studies at Birmingham University, may speak six languages but she cannot persuade her children to follow her example. "I try to get...