New role beckons for net expert
E-learning expert Steve Molyneux will quit his post at Wolverhampton University this summer to devote his energies to ensuring UK companies and public-sector agencies get the best from cutting-edge e...
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Race for European funds 'distorting research'
The Commons science and technology committee has raised concerns that European funding might distort the UK's research agenda. During a session on UK science and Europe, committee members said too...
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Findings: Virtual jogging good for mind
Virtual reality technology could make exercising a much more pleasurable experience, according to researchers. Previous findings have shown that the feel-good factor people experience from exercising...
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Zanzibar
Zanzibar's first university has opened in historic Stone Town with help from Unesco and the Dar-ul-Imman Charitable Association of Saudi Arabia.
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New Delhi
The Indian government is determined to go ahead with all officially sponsored academic programmes involving the US and the UK despite a call for a boycott as an anti-war protest made by 14...
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Kazan
Tatarstan police have arrested two university students for synthesising a narcotic of their own invention, said to be ten times more intoxicating than LSD and five times more impairing than heroin....
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Luxembourg
An action against the Austrian government by University of Innsbruck history of law professor Gerhard Kobler has established a new legal right for all European Union citizens to sue their national...
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Brno
Masark University geography professor Pavel Prosek is to set up the Czech Republic's first Antarctic survey station this autumn after searching for years for a suitable location. The £1 million...
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Melbourne
Monash University has appointed a medical dean from the University of Melbourne as its next vice-chancellor. Richard Larkins will replace David Robinson, who resigned last July after The THES...
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Findings: Amphibians are our friends
Severely declining amphibian populations could lead to a rise in potentially deadly human diseases, writes Natasha Gilbert. According to researchers from ߣߣÊÓƵ, mosquito larvae and tadpoles are...
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UK keeps close eye on Sars hotspots
Preparations were being made this week for any possible evacuation of hundreds of British students and academics from universities in China. Many Chinese campuses have closed to contain the spread of...
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Gaborone
Festus Mogae, Botswana's president and university chancellor, has appointed Bojosi Khebetu Otlhogile vice-chancellor of the country's only university for a three-year term. He succeeds US academic...
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Brussels
The unclear legal situation surrounding genetically modified products in Europe is the cause of an 80 per cent drop in the number of field-based trials of GM crops in the European Union, a European...
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Thumbs down for £9K hellos
Plans to pay "golden hellos" of up to £9,000 to new lecturers in shortage subjects from next year will not solve the recruitment crisis and could lead to an explosion in employment disputes,...
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In the news: Philip James
For a man charged with tackling obesity, Philip James has clearly not lost sight of the joy of food, writes Claire Sanders. The chairman of the International Obesity Taskforce lists one of his...