News in brief

• Speeding satellites
  Trials of cars set automatically to keep within the speed limit are due to begin in Leeds.
• Win WUN grants
  A second round of Worldwide Universities Network studentships are now open to research students at Leeds.
  
• More ways to support
  The performance of medical undergraduates is to be monitored, to determine whether ethnic minority students could be given better support for their learning needs.
• A clinical increase
  Clinical staff within the University received a pay increase of 3.6 percent from April1.
• Learning the lessons
  there are clear lessons to be learnt from the Northern Ireland experience for other troubled parts of the world, suggests human rights expert Professor Colin Harvey.
• First in 1943 and today
  The Leeds electron microscopy and spectroscopy centre has been relaunched.
• Two more to learn
  A nationwide network of centres supporting high-quality learning and teaching has been given a further two years of life, following additional funding from the four UK HE funding bodies.