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...
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Shekels saved on loo roll
Behind the glitter of Tel Aviv University's new buildings lies an annual deficit of 209 million shekels (£ million) and an expected deficit in next year's budget of about 250 million shekels....
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Swedish pull aid to Africans after corruption allegations
Higher education reforms in Mozambique have suffered a severe blow after Sweden suspended financial assistance to Eduardo Mondlane University because of corruption. There are fears that other key...
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Europe falls for Casablanca business venture
Four institutions from both sides of the Mediterranean are joining forces to launch a new business school in Morocco. The Euro-Mediterranean Business School will begin providing short courses for...
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Anti-terror measures curb US research
University researchers are being frustrated by restrictions prompted by the US's war on terrorism that set limits on how they conduct their work - and who is allowed access to it. One of the issues...