HEA gets new chair
Robert Burgess, vice-chancellor of Leicester University, has taken over the chair of the Higher Education Academy. He succeeds Leslie Wagner, who has retired at the end of his three-year term of...
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Researchers step into the twilight zone
Is the truth out there? A small but dedicated band of academics looks for answers in the world of the paranormal. Louise Radnofsky reports More than two decades after a trio of fictional...
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Don't bank on foreign 'cash cow', sector told
Universities must not view overseas students as "cash cows", MPs said this week, Rebecca Attwood writes. If recruitment of international students is driven by short-term gains in fee income,...
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Fund full and part-time students equally, MPs urge
The "arbitrary" funding divide between full-time and part-time students must end, a cross-party committee of MPs has demanded, Rebecca Attwood writes. In a new report, the Education and Skills...
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Female science first
An academic at Imperial College London is the first woman to win the British Pharmaceutical Conference Science Medal of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in the award's 40-year history. Molly Stevens...
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Bluestocking's legacy
The John Rylands University Library at Manchester University has secured the papers of Mary Hamilton (1756-1816), the courtier, diarist and "bluestocking". Manchester said that the archive offered "...
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Best of healthcare
Geoff Meads of Winchester University has received the European Health Management Association's $5,000 Baxter Prize for an outstanding publication contributing to excellence in healthcare management...
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Key change at RNCM
The Royal Northern College of Music has appointed Jonty Stockdale as its next principal. Professor Stockdale, head of the School of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, will...
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Correction
In our article "EU institute starts to take shape" (Times Higher August 3), we quoted David Livesey, secretary-general of the League of European Research Universities, as saying that the European...
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Curiosity's priceless, argue trailblazers
If it can takes decades to recognise the value of a breakthrough, Melanie Newman asks how research councils will ensure that basic science survives along with work that is focused on more immediate...
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Scholar slates 'dodgy' criteria
A leading Cambridge scholar has published a stinging attack on the "audit society", which he says is destroying originality and honesty in research. Writing in the latest edition of Current Biology...
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'Best and brightest' postdocs rewarded
Twenty newly qualified biomedical scientists have each received £250,000 awards from the Wellcome Trust in a new scheme to help postdoctoral students start their research careers, writes Louise...
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Unwanted manliness
Women see "masculine" men as unsuitable long-term partners, new research suggests. Psychologists from Durham and St Andrews universities found that men with feminine facial features are seen as more...
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Journal puzzle solved
A diary said to rival that of Samuel Pepys is being published for the first time. An international team of academics, led by Mark Goldie at Cambridge University, has spent seven years working on...
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Caught red-handed
The diet and sex of a suspected criminal could be discovered from a fingerprint, thanks to new research. A team at Imperial College London, led by Sergei Kazarian, a professor of physical chemistry,...