Telescope finds focus
Work has begun to link five radio telescopes across the UK with a fibre-optic network that will create a virtual telescope spanning some 217km. The e-Merlin network, which includes Manchester...
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Who'll save to learn?
Women, young people and those with low qualifications are the most likely groups to accept that they should save money in a learning account for their post-16 education, a study has found. Low...
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Self-regulation scheme
Further education organisations have been urged by the Learning and Skills Council's bureaucracy task force to set up a professional body to develop self-regulation for the sector. The body would...
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More life, less work
Graduates are demanding more flexible working arrangements from employers in a bid to reduce stress and long hours. A survey of 2,000 employees aged 16 to 24, for information technology firm Unisys,...
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FE brought to account
Jane Davidson, the Welsh Assembly's education minister, has rejected calls for the assembly to intervene in the funding of further education colleges in Wales to rescue the sector from a cash crisis...
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Science schism lecture
The conflicting demands of mass appeal and cutting-edge science will be explored in a public lecture by Sir Neil Chalmers, director of the Natural History Museum in London. Sir Neil will also explore...
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Ancient university dig
Polish archaeologists this week announced they had unearthed the remains of the world's earliest university in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. The team found the remains of 13 lecture halls, thought...
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No doubts about Dubya
The topic of George Bush's ethics proved compelling enough to ensure a full house at last week's Times Higher -sponsored discussion at the National Portrait Gallery in London. In a debate so...
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Officials urged to tackle boom in illegal working
The UK's shadow economy now employs the equivalent of up to 9 million full-time workers, yet academics claim that policy-makers are continuing to ignore the growing national impact this is having....
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Torture scandal may hit policy
A rethink of the "gloves off" policy towards terrorists could emerge in the wake of revelations of the abuse of prisoners by US troops in Iraq, a human rights expert has said. Sir Nigel Rodley said...
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The trouble with serving two masters
"The reality underlying academic medicine is that career structures are very fragmented and there is no clear way through," admitted Geraint Rees , a senior clinical research fellow at University...
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Stressed academic clinicians join NHS
Staff numbers in academic medicine and dentistry have reached crisis point as more clinicians turn to the National Health Service for an easier life, a survey has revealed. According to the survey of...
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Liverpool bids for school to train home-grown doctors
Liverpool University is planning to open a medical school in north and west Cumbria to tackle the shortage of doctors in the region. In a partnership with Lancaster University, the University of...
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'3D map' aids surgical skills
Surgeons of the future will use "augmented reality" to give them a 3D or holographic view of the internal organs of the patient they are operating on, according to researchers who are developing the...
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Act to curb animal extremists ruled out
The government is unlikely to introduce a single piece of legislation to curb animal rights extremists despite figures showing an alarming increase in attacks on pharmaceutical industry staff. Lord...