Computational physicist John Rundle helped produce a map of likely earthquake hotspots It would be easy for John Rundle to say that he forecast the Boxing Day earthquake off the coast of Sumatra that...
* Glasgow University has appointed two creative writing tutors: novelist and former lecturer in creative writing at Leeds University Alan Bissett, who was shortlisted for the Macallan/Scotland on...
Einstein, Nelson and others give academics much to celebrate in 2005, writes Steve Farrar From the Battle of Trafalgar to the cosmic insights of Albert Einstein, academics will meet to mark...
A professor at Leeds University is believed to have died in the tsunami disaster in Thailand, writes Anna Fazackerley. Sally Macgill, 53, professor of integrated environmental management at Leeds,...
Inadequate coastal defence systems could hamper Britain's ability to cope if a tsunami strikes, leading experts warned this week. Coastal defence specialists told The Times Higher that governments...
The old image of stick-thin undergraduates wasting away on a diet of snacks can be put to rest this week by research that suggests that one in four students thinks they are overweight. A survey of...
AFTER THE TSUNAMI Arthur C. Clarke on Sri Lanka, Bill Watson on Indonesia, Costas Synolakis on the future for tsunami research and Carl Knappett and Colin Macdonald on the tsunami in ancient history...
Bournemouth University has recovered £770,000 of the £1 million it was forced to write off after a botched property deal. In 2003, plans to develop a town-centre campus were aborted after it emerged...
Janez Potocnik, the new European Commissioner for Science and Research, will address a conference on European research policy issues at Manchester University this week. Mr Potocnik is speaking at the...
Staff at Ulster University have been informed that Gerry McKenna, vice-chancellor, is to take sabbatical leave after several weeks off sick. Richard Barnett, pro vice-chancellor for teaching and...
Leeds Metropolitan University has signed agreements with two local further education colleges, bringing together more than 100,000 students to create what it believes is the biggest post-16...
Lecturers' union Natfhe is pushing for the creation of a 50,000-student super-university in Wales as a bulwark against large English institutions out to poach staff and students. It plans to call for...
KNIGHTS BACHELOR Robert Rees Davies, CBE, formerly professor of medieval history, Oxford University. Andrew Paul Haines, dean, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Brian Howard Harrison,...
In a league table of hobbies from hell, taking responsibility for protecting two of the world's most iconic and irreplaceable buildings from collapse due to subsidence must come close to the top. But...
Official papers reveal the academic gem on a list of 'little things that mean a lot' As befits that rarity, an ex-academic prime minister, Harold Wilson was immensely proud of having helped to create...