Medics flood wards and try patients
Calls for a new medical school to teach rising numbers of medical students were made by the British Medical Association this week. The association's annual meeting voted for a new school after it...
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New lease of life
Nice to see London School of Economics Ireland expert Brendan O'Leary getting due recognition in another newspaper's "media don" series, but the researchers missed the most splendidly odd fact about...
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Ecology centre move
Edinburgh University's beleaguered Centre for Human Ecology is to re-establish itself on an organic farm in Fife following its effective closure by the university at the end of this session. A one-...
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Oz centre staff funds dry up
Britain's largest centre for Australian studies cannot afford teaching staff for next year's courses because of a funding crisis. The Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies in London, requires...
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Essay winner
Barbara Spender is the first winner of the Menerva Trust/THES competition for the best essay on women in society, with an autobiographical perspective on women writers. She is a mature PhD student at...
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LGU jobs axe claims axeman
Nigel Brown, formerly director of finance at the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England and one of the key creators of the present funding system, has become the highest-ranked victim so far of...
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Facing up to glass bones
Glass could be used to rebuild shattered face and neck bone, according to University of Sheffield researchers. They claim the "bone friendly" material is much better than metal or plastic used in...
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Post delay
We apologise to readers whose subscription copies of The THES were delayed by the postal strike last week: as we went to press, more disruption was planned for June and 28 which will cause a similar...
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Japanese join jobless
Unemployment is fast becoming a fact of life for students graduating from Japanese universities. For the fourth year running tens of thousands graduated without jobs as the academic year ended this...
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Grannies, graduates and gut reactions
I was fascinated to read that research (THES, June 14) suggests that a major reason for the increase in asthma cases could be that we protect our children too much from exposure to germs, thus...
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South Bank strikers blame injunction
Lecturers fighting mass redundancies at London's South Bank University claim they have been forced into taking strike action because of a threatened injunction from university solicitors. Natfhe...
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Drop-out count leads to dispute
Universities and colleges have lost millions of pounds because student drop-outs have been double-counted by the Teacher Training Agency, it was claimed this week. Institutions say they were left...
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Mad tie disease
Though scientists are traditionally supposed to be media-shy, some are positively enjoying all the publicity over mad cow disease. Leeds maverick Richard Lacey - who starts with the advantages of a...
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Welsh face cash choice
Welsh universities and colleges have been presented with a choice of two systems to make research funding more selective. Resources for postgraduate research will focus on areas rated at 3 or above...
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Routledge bought
Venture capital firm Cinven has just bought Routledge, one of the world's leading academic publishers, from the Thomson Corporation of Canada.