Firms give leg up to law
Thirteen law firms have started a new charitable initiative to promote wider access to the legal profession. The CSET Summer School will target undergraduates who believe they fall short of the...
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UCLan photofit insight
Recognition rates of police photofit portraits can in some cases be doubled by caricaturing and animating them, researchers at the University of Central Lancashire and Stirling University have found...
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Cannabis broken down
Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London, have developed a new method to separate the remedial benefits of cannabis from its mood- altering effects. The scientists hope the discovery will...
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Student site unveiled
A website that allows prospective students to compare courses at UK universities and colleges was launched this week. The new Unistats website brings together data from the National Student Survey,...
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Islam study is not a policy tool - Hefce
Academics and the funding council have warned the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills not to view Islamic studies courses as a tool for defeating terrorism and radical Islamist...
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Cranfield gets Arts input to aid design
Two different university cultures are being brought together in a new £5.5 million partnership between Cranfield University and the University of the Arts London. It is hoped that the joint...
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Peter Grant honoured
A specialist in the discipline of electronic signal processing has become the latest holder of the Edinburgh University Regius chair of engineering. Peter Grant, who is head of the School of...
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Warwick's rich harvest
Warwick University has won £6 million worth of funding to research ways of helping crops cope with climate change. The money has been awarded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research...
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Welsh brains merge
Bangor, Cardiff and Swansea universities have collaborated to set up the new Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, which was launched this week. The institute, which builds on the expertise in...
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UEA free speech vote
University of East Anglia students voted against the National Union of Students' "no platform" policy last week. The referendum was called after the university's students union decided to impose the...
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Cell experts to bond
Biologists from three UK universities are to collaborate on a study into the response of human cells to stimuli such as stress and UV radiation. Scientists from the universities of Liverpool,...
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Correction
Santonu Basu's paper was published in the Eastern Economic Journal , not the Eastern Economic Review as we stated last week ("RAE process would exclude Nobel laureates", November 23).
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Obsessed with politics, intrigued by politicians
Profile - Anthony King Professor of British Government, Essex University.Â
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Experts voice concern over REF complexity
Opinions are already divided over the working of the new research assessment system, writes Zoe Corbyn. Debate on the new system to replace the current research assessment exercise began in earnest...
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Scientific adviser aims parting shot at Labour
Sir David King, the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser, has said the Government still has much to do to if it is to put current scientific knowledge at the heart of its decision-making, writes Zoe...