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Campus round-up
University of LiverpoolTurn the page on painA new research centre will explore how reading can help sufferers of serious health conditions including depression, dementia and chronic pain. The...
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Odds and quads
John Hunter (1728-93) has been called the "father of modern surgery", since he was the first to apply a truly scientific methodology to the medical procedure.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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8 December 2011
Byte sighs - Digital humanities: too much information?
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Injunction malfunction: Sheffield withdraws High Court order on student protests
The University of Sheffield has withdrawn an injunction that students feared would ban campus protests.
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Rethink needed to avoid polarisation of sector, ministers told
Two proposals have been put forward to avert the 鈥減olarisation鈥 of the sector as a result of the government鈥檚 student number plans.
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Inside Higher Ed: Politicisation of study abroad
By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed
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Cardiff students to compete for 鈥榝ree tuition for life鈥
A university is launching a competition to win an 鈥淯ltimate Scholarship鈥, which would give the winner free tuition at the institution for life.
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Life sciences strategy to strengthen links between universities, NHS and pharma
David Cameron is to announce a new government strategy developing links between university medical research, the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry.
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Harder working, less satisfied 鈥 the foreign scholar鈥檚 lot?
Foreign academics working in the US are more productive than their American counterparts 鈥 but are also less satisfied with their work, a study has concluded.
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IT infrastructure receives multi-million pound boost
The UK鈥檚 higher education and college IT network, JANET, is to benefit from a 拢31 million boost from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
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鈥楴o confidence鈥 vote over UCL provost鈥檚 NHS role
The students鈥 union at University College London has passed a vote of no confidence in the provost, Malcolm Grant, after he was appointed to take charge of the NHS in England under controversial...
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'Labour would have spared sector Maoist and chaotic reforms'
The government鈥檚 higher education reforms have created 鈥渦nnecessary risk鈥 for universities, the shadow business secretary has said in his first major speech on the sector.
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Offa releases details of revised access agreements
Proposals by 25 universities and colleges to cut their tuition fees so they can bid for 20,000 cut-price undergraduate places in 2012-13 have been approved by the Office for Fair Access, but it has...