EU funds PhD training at Bradford
The University of Bradford has won three EU awards for advanced training of researchers through the EU Marie Curie programme. The department of European studies and the department of archaeological...
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Retired dean will advise spin-offs
University of Bath David Davies, professor and former dean of science, who has also acted as chair of the arts committee and was co-founder and director of a research and consultancy company, will...
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Royal Society of Edinburgh awards research fellowships
The Royal Society of Edinburgh has awarded research fellowships to the following: Matthew Costen , chemistry at Heriot-Watt [BP Research]; SEELLLD Personal Research fellowships - Peter Andolfatto ,...
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Hackles rise over lab plan
The government has thrown its weight behind Cambridge University's plans for a multimillion-pound animal research laboratory, insisting the primate facility will ensure the United Kingdom becomes a...
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Disneyland with the Queen? I recall it well
False memories can tarnish justice and even distort history, write Elizabeth Loftus and Maryanne Garry. Memories are among our most precious possessions. They define who we are as individuals and...
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Rear top herds on diet of data
Databases could help raise better livestock, says John Woolliams. One of the issues that the traumas of BSE and foot-and-mouth disease have highlighted is the need for more and better information...
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Time for universal rules for a fair trial
We are near consensus on ethics for medical research worldwide, says Jimmy Whitworth. Nowhere is the need for health research more pressing than in developing countries, which suffer 90 per cent of...
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Cutting edge
Writing a book not only helped one philosopher to believe he could die happy, it also helped him to answer a fundamental question about the nature of science. Fifteen years ago I decided to write a...
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Next week
News Summer conferences: a look at what's hot and what's not. Features What do academics make of George W. Bush's impact on higher education? Teaching A survey of entries for e-tutor of the year. How...
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'Keep leash on health watchdog'
Government plans for a new overarching regulatory body for all healthcare professionals have left academics and other regulatory bodies concerned that education will be subject to another...
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Nursing board is in hot water after glitch
Ireland's normally efficient college admissions process got off to a shaky start this month when 200 offers of places on nursing courses went to the wrong people. The courses were included for the...
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Top of the glass
Marissa Taboulchanas, who has just graduated from Plymouth College of Art and Design in applied art shows off her coloured glassware, which is displayed at this year's summer show.
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On the move
Janet Hemingway , professor of entymology at Cardiff University, has become the first female director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine . New members of the Learning and Skills Development...
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All Bristol fashion
Bristol University found itself with so many applicants this year that it was able to rise above the annual clearing scramble, indulged in by almost every university except Oxford and Cambridge. This...
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Unmistakable identity
Tory leadership candidate and committed Eurosceptic Iain Duncan Smith may be interested to know that he shares an acronym with the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. The...