Healthy collaboration
A £4 million government grant will kickstart the creation of a "super healthcare university", the result of a collaboration between three higher education institutions. St George's Medical School and...
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NUS fights good fight
The National Union of Students Scotland has launched a "Stamp out Sectarianism" campaign, backed by First Minister Jack McConnell. Posters, beermats, badges and postcards are going to campuses across...
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Open-access results
Under new guidelines issued this week by the research councils, research grant holders from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Medical Research Council and the Economics...
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Correction
Jonathan Swingler was described as the head of Southampton University's School of Engineering Sciences in a Times Higher article last week, "Intelligent design creeps on to courses". He is in fact a...
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Omission
John Fitzpatrick, a senior lecturer in law at Kent University, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours announced earlier this month, but was omitted...
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£12m punt on spin-offs
Hedge fund invests in biomedicine at Oxford, reports Claire Sanders A major hedge fund is to invest £12 million in biomedical engineering at Oxford University in return for a major slice of any money...
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Threat to sue over cut hours
Twelve students are threatening to sue the University of Wales, Newport, for breach of contract after teaching time on their courses was halved at short notice. Solicitors acting on behalf of the...
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Nurse, 78, is a doctor at long last
The study of homosexual identities in Spanish literature is unlikely to appeal to the typical septuagenarian great-grandparent, writes Olga Wojtas. But former nurse Sheila Wilyman, who has graduated...
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Cash incentives might provide carrot to go green
Staff and students could be offered cash incentives to help cut energy bills at Warwick University. The idea is among others being considered by Nick Hillard, an ecologist who joined the university...
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Loughborough aims to gain global fame
Loughborough University has embarked on a recruitment and development drive designed to launch the institution on to the international stage. New posts will boost the four research schools set up...
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Student 'yobs' drive out locals
'Studentification' is creating ghettos and killing communities, Jessica Shepherd writes MPs have told university heads that student ghettos are driving their constituents "up the wall". Politicians...
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Thrifty US dreams up 4-day week
As petrol prices rise, staff 'lose' a day to save cash, writes Jon Marcus in Boston Some US campuses that are largely devoid of students in the summer are even quieter this year as officials pack the...
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Rome
Pope Benedict XVI has been given three scholarships to allow theology students at any of the Pontifical universities in Rome to study at the University of Bochum in Germany. The scholarships were...
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Washington DC
The American Association for the Advancement of Science said that the cost of completing the International Space Station, resuming space-shuttle flights and meeting President George W. Bush's goal of...
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Frankfurt
Police last week made 47 arrests after protests by students against tuition fees. Students smashed windows and set rubbish bins alight on campus before locking themselves in a café.