State research 'lacks fairness'
Fears that the government is seeking to manipulate the research agenda to support its policies intensified this week as new evidence revealed concerns about the fairness and openness of its...
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Over-18s need further finance
A means-tested further education maintenance allowance for adult FE students is urgently needed if government higher education and skills targets are to be met, a report has warned. The Foyer...
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Health academics envious of NHS pay
Nursing and other health academics resent that their pay and conditions are falling behind those of their National Health Service colleagues, according to a survey from lecturers' union Natfhe. Andy...
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Aussie test for student medics
Queen Mary's Medical School is pioneering a test from Australia to choose students for its graduate entry programme this September, writes Claire Sanders. The personal qualities assessment test was...
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Pioneer course will give vulnerable voice in court
The Inns of Court school of law will make criminal justice history this September when it trains 60 healthcare professionals as England and Wales' first registered intermediaries. Intermediaries were...
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New role beckons for net expert
E-learning expert Steve Molyneux will quit his post at Wolverhampton University this summer to devote his energies to ensuring UK companies and public-sector agencies get the best from cutting-edge e...
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Race for European funds 'distorting research'
The Commons science and technology committee has raised concerns that European funding might distort the UK's research agenda. During a session on UK science and Europe, committee members said too...
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Findings: Virtual jogging good for mind
Virtual reality technology could make exercising a much more pleasurable experience, according to researchers. Previous findings have shown that the feel-good factor people experience from exercising...
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Zanzibar
Zanzibar's first university has opened in historic Stone Town with help from Unesco and the Dar-ul-Imman Charitable Association of Saudi Arabia.
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New Delhi
The Indian government is determined to go ahead with all officially sponsored academic programmes involving the US and the UK despite a call for a boycott as an anti-war protest made by 14...
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Kazan
Tatarstan police have arrested two university students for synthesising a narcotic of their own invention, said to be ten times more intoxicating than LSD and five times more impairing than heroin....
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Luxembourg
An action against the Austrian government by University of Innsbruck history of law professor Gerhard Kobler has established a new legal right for all European Union citizens to sue their national...
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Brno
Masark University geography professor Pavel Prosek is to set up the Czech Republic's first Antarctic survey station this autumn after searching for years for a suitable location. The £1 million...
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Melbourne
Monash University has appointed a medical dean from the University of Melbourne as its next vice-chancellor. Richard Larkins will replace David Robinson, who resigned last July after The THES...
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Findings: Amphibians are our friends
Severely declining amphibian populations could lead to a rise in potentially deadly human diseases, writes Natasha Gilbert. According to researchers from Australia, mosquito larvae and tadpoles are...