Joys of intersex
Kathryn Jackson's report on intersex patients made the relationship between them and the doctors who treat them appear to be more adversarial than it is ("Why should a John be a Joan", THES, October...
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Stop, look and listen
University chiefs are busy devising strategies on teaching and learning, but are they talking enough to ordinary academics, asks Liz Allen. By the end of January the Higher Education Funding Council...
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Star turn
Nudity, sexuality and the Stones are par for the course, as Melody Mellor finds out from Leeds communications students. "Some of the material you will see today," began Richard Howells, "is so...
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Canadian students get a taste of liberation from southern neighbours
"Teach thyself" may become the motto of a university on Canada's west coast once it introduces five teacherless classes as part of a pilot project. The University of British Columbia in Vancouver is...
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Anger over SLC red tape
Admissions staff this week attacked the Student Loans Company for asking every university and college to complete manually a list of all students who have loans. The Department for Education and...
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Motion calls for Triesman to resign
Activists at the Association of University Teachers have called for the resignation of union general secretary David Triesman after his decision to suspend industrial action. The extent of their fury...
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Bett report
More than 100 university and college representatives from public service union Unison met last weekend to discuss the outcome of the Bett report on pay. The union is "bitterly disappointed" that the...
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Herring aid
(Photograph) - Herring aid: an ingenious traffic cone feeder, made for the penguins in Edinburgh Zoo, has won the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare's annual award. The keepers wanted to...
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Data to highlight inequality
Universities and colleges that unwittingly discriminate against students from poorer backgrounds will be named and shamed by official performance indicators published next week, writes Alison Goddard...
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Foreign funding boosts UK science
Signs of growing interest in scientific innovation within industry have emerged in new figures published by the Office for National Statistics. The number of scientists and engineers working in...
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Lucy Blue
How a love for old boats led to the Red Sea coast of Egypt, and the excavation of one of the ancient world's major trading centres. For someone who has always been obsessed with old boats, a career...
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Why poles are all at sea
It is not only rocks that geologists are using to track the earth's constantly changing magnetic field. Geoff Watts reports on how centuries-old measurements are playing a part. In the early 18th...
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In pursuit of the new paradigm
Oxford's new Said Business School aims to meet the changing expectations of students and the labour market. Deputy director Mari Sako tells Martin Ince how. There are a few things things everyone...
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Anglo-Saxons fought on foot... and horseback
History has recorded them as doughty warriors who eschewed horses and ultimately fell victim to a Norman cavalry charge. Yet new research suggests that the Anglo-Saxons did not always fight on foot...
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Superbug can withstand radiation and starvation
The genetic secrets of the world's toughest bug have been revealed by a team of American scientists, writes Steve Farrar. The bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans can survive almost any kind of DNA...