From today's UK papers

FINANCIAL TIMES

Sheffield Business School, part of  Sheffield Hallam University, is to stop operating in its current form.

Cranfield School of Management is launching a modular MBA.

A $1m (£600,000) gift from an alumnus, Richard Sorenson, will help endow a studio arts facility at Babson College in Massachusetts.

THE GUARDIAN

Leading article argues that poor students should be protected and top-up fees permitted to fund higher education.

John Sutherland asks can you blame students for funding their years at college the smart way - by selling soft drugs.

THE INDEPENDENT

Archaeologists from Bristol University have the first firm evidence that ancient Britons were cannibals.

Research at the Institute of Neurology in London has located a spot where jokes stimulate activity in the brain.

Nearly 800 students have been DNA-tested in the hunt for a suspected serial sex attacker, believed to be a student living in Edinburgh.

In an interview, historian David Starkey says that his mother made Margaret Thatcher look like a weakling.

DAILY MAIL

Scientists at Stanford University have produced mice in which a quarter of the brain cells are human.

THE TIMES

Robert Schumann, the 19th-century composer, should not have spent his last two and a half years imprisoned in a mental asylum, according to the American scholar Eric Jensen.

Rates of autism have risen faster in the past decade than previously thought, but the cause remains a mystery, researchers at Sunderland University have said.

A band of influential scientists from around the world is warning that genius is being stifled by populism.