Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL www.epsrc.ac....
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Exploit your experience
WHY They believe that students benefit by observing how academics study and feed it into their own work WHAT Historians at Nottingham Trent University are exposing themselves... and not being...
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Agony aunt
Q My life is being made a misery by my department head's bullying attitude. What can I do? A The old folk wisdom that bullies can sense vulnerable victims and need to be challenged is as true as ever...
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Kenya tells surplus students to go abroad
Public universities in Kenya will admit only 8,150 first-year students this year, just per cent of those who have attained the minimum entry qualifications. However, about 1,200 students are expected...
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Cape Town v-c: two left in race
The race is on for the leadership of South Africa's top university following the departure of vice-chancellor Mamphela Ramphele to the World Bank. But few people seem to want the job. The University...
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'Harassed' white staff sue on race grounds
Five white professors have sued the predominantly black university where they work for discriminating against them on grounds of ethnicity and are seeking more than $1 million in damages. The suit...
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Row over pre-poll college upgrade
An attempt by Greece's ministry of education to clear up confusing differences between the its higher education system and those of the rest of Europe has caused turmoil in the academic community. It...
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Israel unveils plans to widen campus access for Arabs
Israel's university authorities are planning to attract students from neighbouring Arab states to a new university in Eilat. A five-year plan for higher education has been drafted by Nehemia Levtzion...
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Protest at Spanish Dearing
Spain's version of the Dearing report was launched last week to student protests in Barcelona against the "creeping privatisation" of higher education. Report author Josep Maria Bricall played down...
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Tablet decodes a tenth of Etruscan language
A bronze tablet, inscribed with more than 200 words of Etruscan text, has increased the known vocabulary of the ancient language by 10 per cent. The Tabula Cortonensis, which was discovered near...
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Museum pays lip service to music
Artificial lips playing notes on a real trumpet are one of the attractions at a new interactive sound laboratory in the world's oldest musical instruments museum. Visitors to the Edinburgh University...
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US colleges tap corporate field
American universities typically generate $5 million (Pounds 3.1 million) a year from developing and delivering programmes for corporate universities, a survey has found. Private-sector institutions...
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Scottish institutions deny merger rumours
Dundee and St Andrews universities have dismissed newspaper claims that they are planning to merge. The two universities have recently agreed to set up a "preferred partnership" to discuss working...
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Well judged
Sandra Dawson, director of the Judge Institute of Management Studies, has been named Businesswoman of the Year at the Cambridge Evening News Business Excellence Awards. Professor Dawson joined the...
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In brief
Nice to get a good review from Michael Beloff of my book, The Ethics and Conduct of Lawyers in England and Wales, which was said to be written by Andrew Bonard and Jennifer Levin ("Lawyers are no...