Floating questions
Researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University and Udine University, Italy, are collaborating on investigating the loss of strength experienced by astronauts in space. Marco Narici of the...
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A bag full of holes is a real life-saver
Millions of people in developing countries are forced to drink deadly cholera-ridden water every day to quench their thirst. But that could change thanks to an invention by a former academic from...
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Fledglings get cash fillip
The Higher Education Funding Council for England confirmed this week that it will continue to fund emerging areas of research until 2008-09 at roughly £20 million a year. Hefce's capability fund...
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When access to data is a real bone of contention
Should academics put their names to papers on drugs trials if they have not analysed or had only restricted sight of the data? Phil Baty investigates
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Release of expansion plans irks governor
Swansea University's vice-chancellor has received a stinging rebuke from one of his governors for publicising the findings of a report on the institution's expansion plans before they had been seen...
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City plans 'corporate' overhaul of executive
City University is set to reduce drastically the size of its decision-making and governing bodies, in what are claimed to be the most radical governance reforms in the higher education sector to date...
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End the slaughter
Dozens of people killed each year in a ruthless turf war between Camorra (Naples 'mafia') mob clans is the subject of a book by Tom Behan, senior lecturer in Italian at Kent University. Dr Behan will...
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Oxford colleges seek to curb v-c
Oxford University's colleges and subject divisions have called for a tight rein to be kept on the powers of Oxford's vice-chancellor and senior management team, in response to proposals to reform the...
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Sino-UK accord opens up doors
Hundreds of British academics are expected to take up university posts in China over the next few years as UK universities strengthen collaborations and Chinese institutions aim to boost academic...
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Cancer experts look to China for talent
Leading UK cancer experts flew to China this week to recruit young research stars and make inroads into an academic sector that many UK scientists find bewildering. Scientists from the charity Cancer...
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Lecturers strike to keep union
New York University has been forced to cancel seminars and classes during a strike by graduate students who undertake extensive teaching duties. The student lecturers are seeking to safeguard union...
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Minister's grants veto slammed
Australian Education Minister Brendan Nelson has shocked academics by vetoing seven large research grants recommended by the Australian Research Council. The grants, in the humanities and social...
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Polar explorers are left out in the cold
A freeze of a different kind may force the closure of Italy's research programme in the Antarctic. Cuts in the 2006 national budget threaten the Mario Zucchelli Station in Terra Nova Bay, which has...
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Swedes to ditch their tongue to improve research dialogue
The Swedish Government wants doctoral dissertations to be written in English to make research more accessible to the international community. Education Minister Leif Pagrotsky used a speech at the...
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Bookish scholars on wane in Spain
Spanish university students buy an average of 1.9 books a year and 42 per cent did not buy a single text or reference book last year, according to a poll by the Spanish Federation of Publishers (FGEE...