Clinical recognition
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has announced 38 new clinical senior lectureships at 12 universities as part of a scheme to support senior clinical academics. A summary of university...
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ESRC language grant
A psychologist at Swansea University has been awarded a grant of more than £95,000 from the Economic and Social Research Council to study how people acquire language and vocabulary during the course...
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Chelsea garden gongs
Universities are celebrating successes at this year's Chelsea Flower Show. A team of scientists from Reading University's School of Biological Sciences won gold at the show by showing how plants can...
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Anglia Ruskin expands
A joint venture agreement between Anglia Ruskin University and the College of West Anglia has been signed this week. It marks the beginning of a new stage of collaboration to expand higher education...
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Leeds gets thumbs-up
The Skin Research Centre at the Leeds University has become the only university skin microbiology laboratory in the UK to receive the international quality standard ISO 17025.
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Building prize to Exeter
Exeter University's Alexander Building, home to the university's performance arts department, has been named "Building of the Year" in the Michelmores Western Morning News commercial property awards...
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Glasgow's Zero hero
Mary Hepburn, senior lecturer in women's reproductive health at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award by the Zero Tolerance Awards 2007. She was recognised for...
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A comic bit actor who's now 'bigging it up' with a bit of byte
It is hard to imagine the grey-haired and besuited head of Brunel University's school of arts playing a flame-throwing punk psychopath, but Steve Dixon is there in The Comic Strip Presents ......
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Iraq's many wars
There is not "one" civil war in Iraq, nor "one" insurgency, but several civil wars and insurgencies between different communities, according to a study by Gareth Stansfield of Exeter University's...
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Children in need at risk
Hundreds of asylum-seeking children are being put at risk because their age is disputed and they are treated as adults, according to the results of an 18-month research project funded by the Nuffield...
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Weighty consideration
Researchers from Loughborough University have warned that the Government's initiative to monitor the weight and height of primary schoolchildren could force the debate on childhood health to become...
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Labour-spotting device
A new device that predicts the onset of labour has been developed and trialled at Leeds University. The invention measures electrical signals in the womb to determine the date of childbirth up to two...
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Tyre-less efforts
Engineers at Swansea University are investigating ways of recycling tyres to reduce the amount of rubber wasted. Nearly 50 million tyres are disposed of in the UK each year. Since July 2006 it has...
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Crude recipe for a 'chicken-run' sector?
Performance targets are spreading despite the criticism that they destroy freedom of inquiry, Phil Baty writes. "A university is not a corporation making razor blades for a price in a particular...
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US treads wary path on Israel
Unlike the UK, America rarely hears calls for an academic boycott of Israel. A desire to keep lines of communication open, or something more sinister? Jon Marcus reports. It didn't seem particularly...