University of Glamorgan - Trauma-free healthcare sought
A degree course that aims to combat the violence suffered by healthcare professionals has been launched by the University of Glamorgan's faculty of health, sport and science. The BSc hons in...
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University of Glasgow - Rockefeller supports research
Richard Rockefeller, a practising doctor and great-grandson of the industrialist John D. Rockefeller, has opened the £3 million Paul O'Gorman Leukaemia Research Centre at the University of Glasgow....
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University of Salford - Conference? That's a joke
The Irish television series Father Ted, the Carry On films and Britons' inability to understand Finnish humour were among the topics due to be discussed at an international conference at the...
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University of Nottingham - Students and staff protest
Nottingham MP Alan Simpson joined University of Nottingham students and staff in a protest against the deportation of Hicham Yezza, a university administrator who was detained under the Terrorism Act...
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Tech transfer blinds industry to wider academic acumen
Product focus stifles knowledge transmission to commercial world, says CIHE. Hannah Fearn writes
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'Naughty' Esler knocks narrow focus on skills
The head of the Arts and Humanities Research Council has hit out at the skills agenda, warning that universities are being diverted into delivering "narrow competencies".Speaking at seminar last week...
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Welsh partners take global aim
Public-private collaboration to offer pre-university courses to overseas students. Olga Wojtas reports
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20 years ago
The ideas of Charles Darwin are slowly taking hold in America. Very slowly. A survey of 2,100 college students, taken at 40 campuses, shows that although the majority believe in the scientific theory...
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News in brief
ÌÇÐÄVlog Founding CouncilReport flags fiscal challengesThe university sector is in for a rocky road because of the UK's faltering economy, the chief executive of the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding...
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Award Winners
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILDetails of the 12 projects to be funded under the Sustainable Agriculture Research for International Development (SARID) intitiative with the...
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University interventions aim to help heal a 'broken' NHS
Centres unite medical schools and hospitals to improve healthcare. Melanie Newman reports
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A late riser
Maureen Skinner started out making tea but now runs an 80-strong team and leads the professional body for HE managers
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Appointments
Lord Winston has been made a professor of science and society at Imperial College London. The new chair will enable him to focus on developing paths for better engagement between scientists and the...
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Hidden cost of open access
Disseminating research via the web is appealing, but it lacks journals' peer-review quality filter, says Philip Altbach
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The Nottingham Two and the War on Terror: which of us will be next?
Three academics at the University of Nottingham argue that the recent arrests of a postgraduate student and a staff member herald an erosion of civil liberties and a clear threat to legitimate...