Back on track
Geoffrey Alderman has found a way of letting off steam now that he is semi-retired.The professor of politics and contemporary history at the University of Buckingham is learning to drive a steam...
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Overseas briefing
IndiaUniversity offers legal aidAn Indian university has pledged to provide legal aid to two students accused of involvement in a series of bomb attacks in Delhi last month. The Jamia Millia Islamia...
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Institutions join effort to give women a rich return
Business school partners will tailor management courses for developing world, writes Hannah Fearn
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Psychologists vote to end role in interrogations
The role of US psychologists in helping to interrogate detainees at Guantanamo Bay and at CIA "black sites" overseas may be at an end after members of the profession voted against the practice.The...
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Reich and wrong
Richard Evans, Cambridge's new Regius professor of modern history, finds much to be optimistic about in his discipline
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Appointments
Quentin Skinner will join Queen Mary, University of London, this month as Barber Beaumont professor of humanities. Professor Skinner, who has served as distinguished visiting professor at Queen Mary...
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Business links 'must be more than supply and demand'
CIHE report urges HE to focus on strengths when partnering with industry, writes Hannah Fearn
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Third-stream success needs staff engagement
A lack of engagement by academics is holding back the transfer of knowledge from universities to business, according to an independent analysis of how funding for "third stream" activity is spent....
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US blogger plots graphs to show death of 'stupid academic fads'
Study provides evidence that the influence of 'isms' has fallen in past decade, reports John Gill
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Staff accept 'insulting' pay deal despite union opposition
Strike ballot called off as 80 per cent of Coventry academics agree offer. John Gill reports
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Original features
When the University of East Anglia (UEA) opened in 1963, Denys Lasdun, who was to go on to become designer of London's National Theatre, became its architect and master planner.He wanted to create a...
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Joint strategy on widening access
A 'super' compact scheme is being considered by leading universities, Rebecca Attwood reports
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20 years ago
Fears have been expressed over the future of early retirement schemes and pensions in the new independent institutions after it was revealed that polytechnics and colleges will have to fund them....
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News in brief
HefceFunding balance steady next yearThe proportion of public funding that universities receive for teaching different subjects will not change next academic year, the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding...
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Help to build a brains trust
Funders pool £30m for the interdisciplinary study of dementia. Zoe Corbyn reports