Influencing decisions made at 16, at the point where education ceases to be compulsory, is key to widening participation, says the first long-term study into the results of an access scheme. Maggie...
Why does Labour focus its access efforts on 18-year-olds when postgrad inequality is rife? asks Paul Wakeling We are not being told the whole story in the great widening participation debate. Welcome...
Creating a culture of sustainability should be at the top of the agenda if we are going to win the war for human survival I am a champion of science, engineering and technology (Set) and how much...
Who says students are getting soft? The following string of complaints recently landed on the Whistleblower's desk. Students at Westminster University are furious that their central London rooms on...
The Diary offers its congratulations to biologists at Dundee University who, according to the Institute for Scientific Information in Philadelphia, have won more citations for their papers than...
Not to be outdone by Dundee University, the University of Cambridge - which normally tops the league tables - has repeated the feat in its latest set of performance indicators. These show that last...
Scientists at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have developed a product you never knew you needed: the reduced-calorie watermelon. While watermelon is traditionally seen as diet friendly, the...
Friday Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow. Although my host and I have never met, and he is not carrying a little placard and I am not wearing a red rose, he heads straight for me. Later I figure out why:...
Lecturers' leaders have rounded on employers for celebrating a breakthrough on improving academics' work-life balance while ignoring their claims for better maternity rights. The Joint Negotiating...
A bid by Scotland's medical schools to help combat cancer, heart disease, stroke and mental illness is to put Scotland at the forefront of international genetic research. The project, Genetic Health...
None of the schemes traditionally used to divide up scholars makes sense. The borders between cognate disciplines have dissolved, the divide between the "two cultures" collapsed and hybrid fields...
Brussels, 14 Aug 2003 A consortium of UK and German researchers has successfully transformed the radioactive isotope Iodine-129, a major waste product from nuclear power generation, into the safer...
Brussels, 14 Aug 2003 The European Commission's Energy and Transport DG will hold an information day on the ongoing calls for proposals under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) in the fields of...
Brussels, 14 Aug 2003 The European Commission has published a call for tenders related to the evaluation, validation and monitoring of energy scientific and technological indicators and references (...
Paris, 14 Aug 2003 High air pollution does more than just irritate your lungs, research confirms it also affects the way you look. By using ESA-provided pollution maps along with ultraviolet...