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Access body will levy fines
The Office for Fair Access will be the first statutory regulator to oversee any part of the UK higher education system. Yet analysis of the proposals in the Offa document reveals a curiously light-...
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Letter-writing prize
Students from 98 nationalities have been writing about their experiences of living and learning in the UK for a new British Council awards scheme supported by The THES. More than 1,700 overseas...
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Pay perception study
Race and gender have a strong influence on people's perceptions of how fairly they are paid, economists at Warwick University have concluded. In a paper to be presented to the Royal Economic Society'...
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Findings: Attractive bacteria
Getting intimate with bacterial attractions could help clean contaminated groundwater for drinking, writes Natasha Gilbert. According to US researchers, efforts to put bacteria to work in polluted...
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Findings: A gene to keep you upright
The discovery of a gene responsible for maintaining balance in mice could lead to a therapy to restore loss of balance to the elderly and to astronauts who have experienced zero gravity, writes...
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Tumour bank to aid hunt for cure
Research into cancer treatments and cures is to be made easier by the creation of a virtual UK tumour bank that was announced this week. The initiative has been developed by the National Cancer...
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Wellcome retreats from science funding front line
The Wellcome Trust will take a back seat in funding UK science for the foreseeable future, according to its former director, Mike Dexter, who left in March. Dr Dexter told The THES that the UK...
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'Placements help minorities and mature'
Mature students and those from certain ethnic groups should choose courses with work experience to overcome prejudice from employers, a conference heard this week. Stephen McNair, head of education...
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Commonwealth plan aims to improve student mobility
Commonwealth students could soon find it easier to transfer their studies to other member states if a Commonwealth Secretariat initiative proves successful. The secretariat wants to see a more...
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Leicester to host business 'Utopia'
Many business schools are sacrificing academic independence as they pursue research agendas driven by private industry, according to Gibson Burrell, new head of the University of Leicester's...
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Graduate scheme is given consent
Graduate apprenticeships have finally received a kite mark from the University Vocational Awards Council and sector skills councils, more than two years after the idea was first mooted. The...
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Numerical skills are key for modern nurses
Nurses need better mathematical skills if they are to fulfil roles in a modern health service, a report from the Learning and Teaching Support Network says. Universities should develop a framework...
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Campus closes as lecturers meet Mugabe's indifference
The campus of the University of Zimbabwe is eerily quiet. It is mid-term, but there are no students and very few staff. Work has all but ground to a halt, the result of a lecturers' pay strike that...
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Inquiry ordered after heart study arrested
An inquiry has started into possible violations of academic freedom by a Canadian teaching hospital after a Halifax doctor had her research interrupted for five months. The Canadian Association of...