Aberdeen bone project
Scientists in Aberdeen University's bone research group are leading a team of European experts in developing treatments for osteoporosis. The three-year E3 million (?2.1 million) Anabonos project,...
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Lusty to lead Welsh v-cs
James Lusty, vice-chancellor of the University of Wales College, Newport, has been elected chairman of 糖心Vlog Wales, the body that represents Welsh vice-chancellors. He will take up the...
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Lawsuits dismissed
Two lawsuits filed by disgruntled individuals unable to get their work in the arXiv e-print archive - the principal forum for physics research - have been dismissed in the US. Courts in Georgia and...
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AoC calls for fees limit
The Association of Colleges has backed moves to limit increases in top-up fees from 2010. John Brennan, AoC chief executive, said this week that college heads believed allowing universities to charge...
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Cash for Scots students
The Scottish Executive hopes to widen participation in further and higher education with a ?49 million programme that will give cash to young people who stay on at school or college. Jim Wallace,...
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Fear over IP proposals
Academics at Cambridge University will have to ask the authorities for permission to make money from their ideas under new intellectual property proposals, it was claimed this week. Revised IP...
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Public health 'ignored'
Research into how to deal with public health threats such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, terrorism and obesity is being dangerously neglected, some of the country's leading health experts...
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Treasury-CMI deal criticised
The Treasury was accused this week of setting an unwelcome "constitutional precedent" by excluding government colleagues from plans to set up a ?65 million partnership between Cambridge University...
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Industry winners losing out in the RAE
Blue skies or blue chip - which way should research go? Claire Sanders reports University departments doing research vital to the future of the UK economy are under threat from the research...
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'Fourth-stream research is vital but difficult'
Blue skies or blue chip - which way should research go? Claire Sanders reports Minoo Patel, head of the School of Engineering, is keen to define and illustrate what Cranfield University means by...
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Model Cranfield caught in trap
Blue skies or blue chip - which way should research go? Claire Sanders reports Cranfield University finds itself at the heart of an uncomfortable contradiction in government policy. It works with...
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Welsh v-cs concerned about 'cuts' to budget
Welsh university heads have reacted angrily to "effective real-terms cuts" as allocations were unveiled this week by the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for Wales. Allocations for teaching for next...
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New boss ready to rattle Manchester
The preoccupation with variable tuition fees is a damaging distraction to the wider debate over the future of higher education, according to the incoming president of the newly expanded Manchester...
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Aussie students fight top-up fees
Students at universities in Queensland, South Australia and Victoria took action as governing councils considered a federal government option to increase fees by up to 25 per cent. More than 1,000...
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'Flawed' report riles elite
Two top New Zealand universities have resorted to the courts to stop publication of a report on research performance that makes comparisons with the UK. Auckland and Victoria universities claim the...