College collaboration
Canterbury Christ Church University is backing plans by Thanet College to build a new £43 million campus on land adjacent to the university's Broadstairs campus in East Kent. The university said the...
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Welsh eco-champion
Cardiff University said this week that its recent creation of departmental "eco-champions" has already paid dividends. In the first six months of 2007 the university's gas consumption fell 15 per...
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MRC chief defended
The Government has rejected the Science and Technology Committee's criticisms of the Medical Research Council's chairman, saying this week it has "every confidence in Sir John Chisholm". The...
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Free speech wins the day
Students at the University of East Anglia have rejected the National Union of Students' policy of excluding organisations perceived to be racist or fascist from campus debates. The "no platform"...
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Cancer charity to partner research
Cancer Research UK is planning to fund a network of 20 research centres in British universities over the next two years, writes Melanie Newman. The centres will focus on research into the disease and...
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Anglia v-c rallies troops
A vice-chancellor has written to his staff urging them to respond "pretty smartly" to a newspaper league table that placed their university at the bottom. In an e-mail message sent out following the...
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Music made for the flipside of The X Factor
Profile - Johnny Marr visiting professor, Salford University. "Absolutely" is Johnny Marr's deadpan response when asked if he wants to be known as "professor", writes Tariq Tahir. It is perhaps...
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Arts get a boost
Canterbury Christ Church and Greenwich universities are using a public library to house course material for students at the joint University Centre Folkestone. The universities are buying books, CDs...
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Nuclear advance
Lancaster University has created a new chair in nuclear decommissioning. The chair is supported by the Lloyd's Register Educational Trust, a charity that funds advances in transportation, science,...
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Forensic science coup
Teesside University is to run a career development scheme for forensic scientists within the Metropolitan Police Service. The five-year contract will involve training for approximately 800 staff.
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Wales backs research
The Wales Institute for Research in Art and Design has been launched at the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff. It is hoped that the institute, founded by the University of Wales Institute,...
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Come fly with us
The University of Manchester Aerospace Research Institute was launched this week with the aim of developing more environmentally friendly aircraft. It will investigate new materials and methods in a...
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Lingo for truckers
Canterbury Christ Church University has launched the UK's first foreign-language learning kit for lorry drivers. The pack, called "Languages for Special Purposes", has been created for freight...
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Employers fuel drive to boost animal test skills
Students' mistaken belief that in vivo research is becoming obsolete is factor in low take-up, writes Melanie Newman. Plans to encourage a new generation of academics to take up careers in live...
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Two bright young thinkers win early research prize
How do Israeli children think of Palestinians? Mostly with deep hatred and fear, but there are glimmers of empathy too, writes Zoe Corbyn. This is what Asi Sharabi found undertaking his PhD at the...