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BBC 2 Television 31st May 2006
As part of this six episode documentary series looking at what long term happiness is about, Professor Simon Wessely, Institute of Psychiatry was interviewed in a programme on multiculturalism and Professor Paul Salkovskis, clinical psychologist, King's College London was interviewed in an earlier programme (24 May) about medication as an artificial way to control happiness.Channel 5 News 31st May 2006
Chris Eades, The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies discussed violent crime and the knife amnesty. He also gave interviews to the ITV News and BBC News (19 May 2006) and Sky News (12 and 13 May 2006).Daily Telegraph (p7) 31st May 2006
Animal rights protesters have discovered the secret location of builders working on the construction of a new Oxford University laboratory. Speak, a group that says it uses only legal means to protest against vivisection, will demonstrate outside the men's quarters in a Cotswolds village on Saturday. It also emerged yesterday that during a concert in Oxford on Thursday the singer Morrissey, a passionate anti-vivisectionist branded the university "the shame of England" for allowing the laboratory to go ahead. He also warned workers at the laboratory site: "We'll get you."Daily Record.co.uk 31st May 2006
Dr Celia Beckett, King's College London study into affects of how severe hardship and malnutrition in early years can have a lasting effect on children's intelligence was discussed on Daily Record.co.uk and briefly in Mirror.co.uk. Findings were published first in the USA journal Child Development, June issue.Daily Mail (p25) 31st May 2006
Israeli politicians have accused a British lecturers' union of anti-semitism after it urged its members to boycott visiting academics from Israel. On Monday, the NATFHE union voted to advise staff in further education to boycott Israeli lecturers and universities in protest at the coutnry's Palestinian occupation policies. The response from Israel was one of disbelief. Its universities have a history of trenchant criticism of Israeli policies.BBC Radio 2 30th May 2006
David Carpenter, Professor in Medieval History discussed the Magna Carta on the Jeremy Vine show after a poll found its anniversary the best date for a new national day to celebrate Britishness.The Times (Editorial p17) 30th May 2006
Few issues produce more heat and less light than admissions to the leading universities. There are many working in the independent sector who swear blind that fee-paying pupils are being discriminated against when it comes to entering the likes of Oxford and Cambridge. There are others involved with comprehensives who are no less convinced that these two universities are still bastions of Brideshead Revisited. Yet, as we report today, there is now some evidence that should improve the quality of this discussion.BBC Radio 5 Live 30th May 2006
Rob Allen, director of the International Centre for Prison Studies discussed overcrowding in prisons following comments made by Lord Phillips, the Lord Chief Justice.Guardian (Educ Supp p1) 30th May 2006
Victims of the escalating war between lecturers and universities, undergraduates, are beginning to fight back. Their weapon asks this feature: legal action.The Independent (p9) 30th May 2006
Britain's biggest lecturers' union has backed a call for a boycott of Israeli universities in protest at its government's "apartheid" policies towards Palestine. Delegates at the annual conference of the 69,000-strong NATFHE, the university and college lecturers' union, voted to urge all their members to consider boycotting all Israeli institutions and academics who did not publicly dissociate themselves from their government's policies.Guardian (Educ Supp) 30th May 2006
As talks resume today to try to resolve the pay dispute, lecturers' leader Roger Kline of Nafthe, warns that attitudes are hardening.Guardian (Educ Supp p12) 30th May 2006
Sir Martin Harris, head of the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) says last-minute bargains to attract students would create problems in this feature about clearing.Daily Telegraph (p9) 29th May 2006
One third of final-year degree students have visited their doctor and more than a fifth have sought help from a counsellor because of the stress of exams, according to a survey carried out last week. Pressure to achieve at least a 2:1 classification, uncertainty over the lecturers' pay dispute and soaring debt are cited as triggers for widespread anxiety among this year's candidates.Daily Telegraph (p25) 29th May 2006
Statins are taken by two million people in Britain - now, a new study says millions more of us should be prescribed them. But medication is no substitute for a healthy lifestyle. Tom Sanders, professor of nutrition and dietetics at King's, is quoted in the article, "I am pro-statin in people who are at high risk and you could justify their use for everybody over 60. The problem is that they are being prescribed to much younger people, whose absolute risk is quite low and who are going to have a very long lifetime exposure.Economist 29th May 2006
Article which looks at Labour's confused record on criminal justice quotes Professor Mike Hough, Director of the The Institute for Criminal Policy Research in the School of Law, on community sentences.