Coffee boosts pill benefits
Washing down an ibuprofen tablet with coffee can boost the analgesic action of the painkiller, a study has found. The combined effect emerged during a study involving 301 tension-type headache...
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Robotised geostar shines light on Mediterranean seabed
Scientists from Italy, France and Germany have lowered a robotised research station, weighing 1.5 tonnes to one of the deepest parts of the Mediterranean. At 3,500m below the surface, this is almost...
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Italian lava's deep secret
Etna and the other live volcanoes of Italy have been studied for a long time. Now scientists are finding out about their undersea neighbours and submerging equipment in the deep sea to study their...
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Star Turn: Oliver Double
Mandy Garner enjoys a game of bingo in a Kent lecture theatre as a teaser to learning about working-men's club comedy Stand-up comedians have arrived. Just a few years ago, they were deeply uncool;...
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Copyright licencers say fees are too low
Universities should pay six times more for their copyright licences than they do, according to the Copyright Licensing Authority. In response to accusations of overcharging from the Committee of Vice...
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QAA told to rethink its award rankings
The Quality Assurance Agency has been forced to take its blueprint for a national qualifications framework back to the drawing board after overwhelming protests. A chorus of disapproval has persuaded...
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The not so odd couple
Poor career guidance and isolation are issues for many women working in science, technology and engineering. Mixed-sex mentoring may be a solution, as Sharon Ann Holgate finds out. "It was a...
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Agony aunt
Howard G. Allen Emeritus professor of structural engineering University of Southampton A : Students want to perform well but worry about what is expected of them. Most welcome useful advice. But for...
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How to... get a seminar group to sizzle
WHAT : Tutors often find it an uphill struggle to get students to open up in group debate about their studies and ideas WHY : Kate Exley argues that getting students to help set the ground rules can...
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Healthy marriage is on the rocks
Teaching and research are the perfect pair, not foes, Stephen Rowland insists. The argument for a divorce between teaching and research comes in various forms, but its logic boils down to this: some...
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Racking their brains
Cambridge dons are polarised as never before - over bicycle racks. Historians have mounted a call to arms against umbrella-like racks installed at the school of divinity's new building opposite their...
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Rector to the rescue
Glasgow University students, who have called for the resignation of their elected rector, actor Ross Kemp, must be looking enviously at St Andrews. The students are annoyed at Mr Kemp's absence, but...
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Emotional online
Want to relive graduation magic? The University of Waterloo in Canada is offering webcasts of ceremonies. "If you enjoyed last year's ceremony of 940 students going up to accept diplomas......
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EU student access breached
The European Court of Justice has censured the Italian government for imposing restrictions on the right of students from other European Union states to live and study in Italy. It found that...
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Scotland booms, England bombs
A boom in the number of Scottish students has followed changes to funding north of the border while English universities struggle to meet expansion targets this year. Just under 2,000 more Scottish...