Students face hard choices
The University and College Admissions Service says that applications for undergraduate physics courses have fallen by just 1.2%, compared with a drop of 4.2% in all subjects. It has received 17 377 ap...
UK budget stresses R&D
The government is to contribute £20 million to a University Challenge Fund to help universities to exploit academic research. The Welcome Trust and the Gatsby Trust have contributed a further ...
Science fiction to the rescue of teaching?
At the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in Philadelphia today, Leroy Dubeck from Temple University presented a lecture on teaching science with the help of sci...
Budget falls in Denmark
Danish research grants and funds for postdoc training in the natural sciences will be halved next year
Students suffer with old equipment
Mercury manometers, out-of-date computers and pressure gauges calibrated in pounds per square inch. These are some of the pieces of obsolete equipment that UK students are using in undergraduate labor...
Australian physicists fight cuts in university budgets
Like their colleagues in many other countries, Australian physicists are in the midst of a funding crisis. Peter Pockley reports on their attempts to fight back
Too little?
The announcement that undergraduate physics teaching is to be phased out at the University of East Anglia (UEA) has sent a shiver through the UK physics community. Students admitted last year will fin...
