Binding promise
Rational drug design is making huge advances in the treatment of disease. Julian Hiscox and Gail Lynagh report Since the time of Alexander Fleming's fortuitous discovery of penicillin, the search for...
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Cutting edge
On the trail of the dark and dangerous criminal monster that is lurking below the surface of Russian life The sort of news I read tends to be depressing. Drug seizures in Moscow. Another contract...
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It's blue skies ahead for adaptable Irish academy
The Royal Irish Academy is undergoing its first root-and-branch review. Olga Wojtas reports The Royal Irish Academy was founded in 1785 with a charter from George III as a society for "promoting the...
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Wellcome waits on starting block
A national cell bank could allow the UK to take the lead in stem-cell research, says the Wellcome Trust's Robert Terry The recent change in the law regulating the purposes for which human embryos can...
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From today's UK papers
Universities 'on the cheap' will fail students Extra financial help for poorer students is no substitute for more money for the universities for teaching and research, MPs and peers told the...
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Randall up for NHS post
Former quality boss John Randall this week emerged as a contender for chief executive of the government's University of the National Health Service. Mr Randall, who resigned as chief executive of the...
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SA research output declines
Research output at most of South Africa's leading universities has declined over the past eight years, according to government figures that measure productivity by articles in recognised publications...
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Scientist hits out at Defra
A former member of the BSE Inquiry has questioned the competence of government departments to carry out research in the wake of the sheep and cattle brains muddle. Malcolm Ferguson-Smith called on...
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Morris opens ivory towers to hit target
Education secretary Estelle Morris announced this week that higher education was to be redefined, possibly to include some further education, as a platform on which the government would base its...
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Latest news
Hodge promises to consult on student finance The higher education sector will be consulted on government proposals to reform student finance, higher education minister Margaret Hodge has...
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'Cash for salaries is being sidelined'
Vice-chancellors are spending resources earmarked for staff pay on peripheral and potentially discriminatory human resources initiatives, according to a survey by the Association of University...
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Progress on equality is 'painfully slow'
Figures released today revealed small increases in the number of women and ethnic minority academics working as professors, senior lecturers and researchers. But lecturing unions say progress is...
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Lecturers left out in cold with 'shocking' pay
The gap between academic salaries and comparable professions is widening as Bett's recommendations for pay increases remain unmet, an analysis by lecturers' union Natfhe has found. Figures released...
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Funding rethink to fill unfilled places
Funding chiefs are debating whether to further intervene in the workings of universities and colleges facing a crisis in student recruitment. The Higher Education Funding Council for England this...
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New nursing quality check is welcomed
The president of the shadow Nursing and Midwifery Council has announced a new "light-touch, streamlined, cost-effective and evidence-based" approach to quality assurance on nursing and midwifery...