Three times lucky
Liverpool John Moores University has won the Department of Trade and Industry's Business Leader of Tomorrow competition three years in a row. The latest winner, Gareth Black, is a postgraduate...
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Correction
Following our feature on the good-practice guidelines for fieldwork overseas (April 20, "Passport to a safer field trip"), British Standards has asked us to point out that its new helpline number is...
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Correction
* Sheffield University has not handed over English-language tuition to Kaplan ("Private firms tighten grip", April 21). In setting up Sheffield International College with Kaplan in 2006, the...
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Competition swells ranks of professors
As more hard-working high-flyers are rewarded with titles, there are fears that the boost in numbers may devalue the honour. Tony Tysome reports A rapid rise in the number of professors in UK higher...
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Blackshirts uncovered
A leading synagogue in Salford was once the regional headquarters of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Manchester University historian Yaakov Wise uncovered the synagogue's past while...
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Hoot out the rivals
Men might puff out their chests when attempting to stand up to a potential rival, but male owls defend their territory by lowering the pitch of their hoots to try to make themselves sound bigger than...
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Aggressive winners
Men are more likely to engage in alcohol-fuelled violence after rugby matches if their team wins. This unexpected conclusion was reached by Cardiff's Violence Research Group after surveying rugby...
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Survival instinct
Scientists have uncovered evidence that Irish stoats have real staying power. Researchers at Queen's University Belfast found that stoats survived in Ireland at the coldest peak of the last Ice Age,...
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Weather the storms
A researcher at Sheffield University has helped develop an innovative index that measures changes in wind and storminess over long periods of time, helping scientists to assess past and future...
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Bids invited for mutual gain
As India and the UK strengthen research links through a government-backed strategy, individual universities are really talking business. Olga Wojtas reports Academics and researchers across India and...
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World encompassed
MACQUARIE PLANS INDIAN OFF-SHOOTS An Australian university has unveiled plans to open several campuses in India. Macquarie University in Sydney is seeking approval from the Indian Government to open...
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A life-enhancing language lesson
Sugata Mitra, professor of educational technology at Newcastle University, is working to improve the prospects of deprived children in India with the help of Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck and his own...
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Fling open door and let Pinter's pause be heard
On the 50th anniversary of Harold Pinter's first play, Mark Taylor-Batty offers a (self-)critical reappraisal According to Len in Harold Pinter's only novel, The Dwarfs , when literary analysts read...
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Gary Day
Britain's media is going in for a spot of introspection, not on what should really concern us - our ignominious exit from the Cricket World Cup - but our continuing moral decline, the mess, the lack...
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Done it all, Bill? Not quite
Invitations arrived this week for the official launch of a new "independent think-tank on higher education", Agora, which hosted its first debate, "Are we squandering our cultural resources?", at the...