Cutting edge: Colin McInnes
Solar sailing might not sound like an obvious candidate for PhD funding, but investment during the1980s is paying dividends today I first stumbled across the idea of solar sailing by accident, not...
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A case of bloody speculation...
... or why scientists and historians need mutual understanding to avoid a fight over genetic heritage. The brutal Viking stereotype has a convincing pedigree. Their culture venerated ideas and images...
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How to... Dispel nerves in a lab novice
What should a postgraduate demonstrator do if a student faints and falls off their chair? Kate Exley has all the answers. A few more years ago than I care to remember, I was a science postgraduate...
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Spy claim hits jailed academic
A leading independent Egyptian social scientist jailed for seven years with hard labour on charges arising from his research also faces spying charges after he attended a Pentagon conference. Saad...
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Colleges deride LSC offer
Fears of a financial crisis in further education were allayed this week as the Learning and Skills Council scrapped plans to freeze post-16 funding. But the LSC's revised offer of a 3 per cent real-...
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Higher education appointments
Sheffield Hallam University Philip Severs has recently been appointed director of finance. His joins the university from Centro, where he was responsible for promoting and sponsoring public transport...
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Women win top honours
Two of the most prestigious professorships in science have been awarded to women for only the third time in history. Frances Ashcroft, whose pioneering work at Oxford University is revealing the...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Lord Sainsbury, the science minister, has opened the Genetic Therapies Centre at Imperial College, London. Mumbai (Bombay) in India will house the Massachusetts Institute of...
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Higher education awards
2001 Pilgrim Trust Conservation Awards Mamiko Matsumura , who graduated from the Textile Conservation Centre (TCC) at the University of Southampton last year, has won first prize in the prestigious...
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Latest international news
Former education minister found dead Former Azerbaijani education minister Rafig Feyzullayev, jailed for 12 years in February for corruption and misappropriation of state funds, has been found dead...
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Latest UK news
Solo spaceship unveiled Space fanatic Steve Bennett today unveiled what could become the first privately piloted spaceship, Nova, which is 10m high and can take one person into space.&...
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Latest UK news
Hodge makes £250,000 commitment to access Education and skills minister Margaret Hodge today reaffirmed the government’s commitment to widening participation. At the Universities UK annual conference...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Three of Britain's biggest trade unions are planning concerted action against the government's policy of giving private-sector companies a role in public services. Independent Lars...
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Latest international news
US urged to aid detained scholars A US house of representatives panel has called for an envoy to be sent to China to state deep concern over the continued detention of six scholars of Chinese...
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Latest international news
Student killer executed in Yemen A Sudanese morgue worker convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering two women students at Sana'a University in Yemen has been publicly executed by firing squad....