NUS calls voter troops to arms
Students could swing key marginal seats in the forthcoming general election as part of a campaign launched this week. The National Union of Students is to target its campaigning efforts on crucial...
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NHS and medical schools need shared centres to heal rift
Medical schools and the National Health Service are drifting apart and need to re-examine how they work together, says the latest in a long line of reports on their relationship. University Clinical...
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Students hit by food disorders
A fifth of students are thought to be suffering from severe eating disorders that threaten their mental and physical wellbeing. Deanne Jade, principal of the National Centre for Eating Disorders, has...
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Is the answer a Midwestern model?
Some see the University of Wisconsin system as a template for UK higher education. Alison Utley reports that Manchester is looking at the system, which Philip Fine describes below. The vice-...
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Whistleblowers: Middlesex settles claim
Senior managers at Middlesex University knew the outcome of a staff grievance claim months before the hearings were complete, The THES has learned. Their decision to throw out a bullying claim by...
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Glittering prizes
Arthur Peacocke , a physical biochemist at the University of Oxford and an Anglican priest, has been awarded the £700,000 Templeton prize for progress in religion. The University of Dundee will award...
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Don's Diary
Monday 08.30, Natural History Museum: 22 million specimens, 30 curators. Unlock scaffold bridge connecting old and new buildings, check atrium lift is operational - a glass panoramic thing protected...
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Sit still and behave
Staff at Birkbeck College, London, were warned to behave nicely at last weekend's graduation ceremony. A missive from Josie Charleton, director of external relations, recommended staff "find a...
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Outbreak hits students
With all the misery faced by farmers over the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, spare a thought for students at the Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education. The foot-and-mouth...
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Mob's mixed message
Varsity , the University of Cambridge's student newspaper, has clarified its report of the national shutdown day two weeks ago. It had said that protesters were chanting "let's go beat up the Germans...
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Not shaken by quake
A survey of the recent Seattle earthquake by United States journal Annals of Improbable Research produced a response from Angela Close, an archaeologist at the University of Washington, who was...
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On the move
The University of Sheffield has appointed to its committee of university chairmen: Ron Haylock , chairman of council at the University of Nottingham and chairman of the committee; Karen Morgan ,...
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In the news: Lawrence Summers
Harvard University's next president, Lawrence Summers, is characterised by friends as driven and energetic. Even his tennis game, they say, is aggressive. The nephew of two Nobel prize winners in...
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Eyewitness
Language use and teaching in the countries of the former Soviet Union and its satellites are politically charged. "Educators worldwide believe in the importance of the native language for concept...
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Foreigners need not apply
Lioba Simon-Schuhmacher is disturbed by Spain's unwelcoming attitude towards foreign academics. Spaniards with degrees obtained in their home country are to be found teaching at almost every European...