Play centres are the place for parents
Parents are moving away from using traditional play areas for their children and opting for the new range of commercial play centres springing up around the country, according to a study out this...
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Pill users threatened by antibiotics in A&E
Women on the pill are being endangered by accident and emergency doctors who do not alert them of the danger of using antibiotics alongside oral contraceptives. A study in Buckinghamshire and south-...
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Maths for the 21st century
In anticipation of the fourth world maths conference that is taking place in Edinburgh next month, Julian Hunt and Jack Carr survey future applications of mathematics and computing Mathematicians...
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World Watch
A Moscow State University student taking a lunchtime walk through the campus park died when an unknown attacker slashed her throat with a knife. Zukhra Saitova, a 19-year-old third-year philosophy...
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Queen's Birthday Honours
LIFE PEERS Sir Ronald Oxburgh, KBE, rector, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine; Vivien Stern, secretary general, Penal Reform International. KNIGHTS William Adsetts, OBE, chair of...
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The College of Law
The College of Law has launched its own student loan scheme in collaboration with NatWest bank. Under a special deal, students can take out loans currently fixed at 6.25 per cent or variable loans at...
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Informed waiting
(Photograph) - Nick Bower, a student at Sheffield Hallam University, who during a placement at South Yorkshire Passenger Transport helped develop QUEST, a bus location system. People waiting at bus...
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World Watch
The privately funded Islamic University of Rotterdam will more than double its student intake this autumn. Up to 100 new students are expected to be admitted to study Islam and the Koran. The...
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Which country is tops in tropical medicine?
Citations for the trend spotters Normally, analysis of citations in individual subfields is more useful for policy formation than is an examination of all of biomedicine. Papers in a subfield such as...
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Grants lobby refuses to die
Phil Baty looks at academics' response to a THES poll on how Labour policies are faring Academics have overwhelmingly rejected the government's decision to scrap student grants, warning that hardship...
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Catholic landstop Ulster job
A Catholic has been appointed vice-chancellor of one of Northern Ireland's universities for the first time. Gerry McKenna (above), 45, currently UU's pro vice-chancellor for research, beat off...
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Citations for the trend spotters
The Unesco conference will note the growing strength of Asian biomedical science. Grant Lewison reports The practice of counting the numbers of scientific papers produced by a country has become a...
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Mission to Pristina
The weight of responsibility resting on her shoulders is immense. But at 28, Monica Llamazares is determined and only a little daunted by the task ahead. In less than a fortnight, she will land in...
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Labour's Euro loss sees dons triumph
The Labour Party is reeling after last week's European Parliament elections - but parties started by, run by or starring academics were the big winners. The two parties to have gained most from the...
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Most students ignorant of costs
Students are ill-informed about the costs of higher education, a national survey has found. Most think costs arising from taking an undergraduate course range from Pounds 2,000-Pounds 5,000 a year,...