Scots win £150,000 to wage war on midges
Aberdeen University scientists are waging war on that scourge of the Scottish summer - the common midge - with a £150,000 grant from Scottish Enterprise's proof of concept fund to commercialise...
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News Hefce unveils its strategy Darwin and the barnacle An eight-year love affair that inspired one of science's most far-reaching theories Virtual vision Tony Smith, president of Magdalen College,...
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Whistleblowers: Aston faces £100,000 High Court claim
Aston University faces a High Court claim for more than £100,000 in damages next week from a former PhD student who hopes to set a legal precedent and consign the quasi-judicial visitor system to...
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Ruskin left in lurch as site deal collapses
Ruskin College - the workers' university - faced a difficult future this week after a crucial property deal fell through. Principal Jim Durcan had drawn up plans to move the 100-year-old Oxford...
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Par for the race course
Oxford and Cambridge universities are stepping up their outreach campaigns to attract more non-traditional students. The universities are on tour, hoping to attract sixth formers to events designed...
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Don's diary: Minefield Memoirs
March 2002 Radio 4 announces that I am going to Afghanistan as an artist commissioned by the Imperial War Museum. I am still struggling to find a way into the country, let alone plan an itinerary. It...
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Why I believe science administrators do more harm than good
How do you promote innovative science and start a scientific revolution? Historians and philosophers have long puzzled over this, as have science administrators hoping to foster breakthroughs through...
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Sex and the Hildabeast
Women-only colleges have served their purpose; it's time for St Hilda's to move on, says Hilda Brown. As a non-Oxford graduate, my experience of Oxford University spans 40 years of working with an...
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Super-search tool
Academics backed by the Joint Information Systems Committee are working on a super-search engine to make the internet more useful for scholars. Other Jisc-backed projects were singled out for praise...
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UK-US e-learning deal
A £6 million deal to develop online learning and teaching was signed this week by the Joint Information Systems Committee and the US National Science Foundation. The five-year programme will pool the...
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Cash for energy plans
The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and Edinburgh and Dundee universities have been given more than £2 million from the government's community energy scheme. The scheme,...
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Explain it all to the public? Labsolutely
Chemistry students learn theory diligently, but conveying what a chemist does is a different skill. Nigel Lowe and John Garratt conducted an experiment to broaden minds There are more research...
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FE buildings 'unfit'
More than 40 per cent of buildings in Welsh further education colleges are not fit for their current use, according to a report from the auditor general for Wales. Bringing the estate up to scratch...
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£2m for climate study
A £2 million initiative designed to give new direction to climate-change research was announced this week. The programme, which is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council,...
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Plaudits for Edinburgh
Skill Scotland, the advisory body for students with disabilities, has praised Edinburgh University's proposed admissions shake-up that will consider whether applicants have disabilities.