Financial Times
King's College, London, is to borrow £60m to help fund investments - the biggest unsecured loan raised by a British university.

The Guardian
The saga of quality assessment in British universities has taken an extraordinary turn - dethroning some of the oldest academic stars and crowning some of the newest.

A global watchdog has been launched to combat attacks on teachers and students.

Geoffrey Alderman, vice-president of Touro College, New York, writes that although its teaching is on a par with Oxford, Bolton Institute is still being denied university status.

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Wendy Piatt, research fellow in education at the Institute for Public Policy Research, asks why Natfhe and the AUT are fighting for more money for students - and ignoring the plight of lecturers.

Professor David N Ashton, director of international development at the Centre for Market Studies, University of Leicester, asks why white-collar workers are getting all the lifelong learning.

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The Independent
Europe's last remaining colony of chimpanzees used for scientific experiments, at the Biomedical Research Centre at Rijswijk, the Netherlands, could be disbanded within weeks after a damning report into their captivity.

Robert Verkaik writes that e-learning for law students and a scheme allowing pleas by email are just two of the initiatives designed to bring the law up to date.

The Daily Mail
A vaccine to control rheumatoid arthritis could be ready within five years, say scientists at Complutense University in Madrid.

Many bosses could be clinically diagnosed as psychopaths, according to a scientific report by psychologist Paul Babiak.

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The Daily Telegraph
Britney Spears can turn the most arcane science into a massive hit, Carl Hepburn, a physicist at Essex University has discovered.

The Times
Leading academics have said that the five-yearly assessment of university research has stifled original work and wasted millions of pounds.

Miscellany
Scientists at Unilever in Sharnbrook, Bedforshire, claim to have genetically developed a tomato with huge potential to reduce the risk of heart disease, by boosting by up to 80 times the levels of flavonols, known to fight against clogging of the arteries. ( Times , Daily Mail )