Nice legs - shame about the teaching
Universities are putting increasing emphasis on student evaluation forms but, warns Zazie Todd, they can reveal more about gender biases than the quality of tuition. The last class has ended. The...
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Cutting edge: Digital Darwinism
The future of computers is not artificial intelligence, says Peter Bentley, but true intelligence, in the form of software based on human biology. Children's toys are extraordinary these days. Little...
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Lessons in misplaced trust and dollars lost
A US researcher with a passion for British beer is challenging assumptions that underlie many economic models - and finding that losing a few cents can be an unforgettable aid to classroom learning....
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Medical schools fear job losses and a knock-on effect on the NHS
Medics fear there could be job losses as a result of the government's refusal to fund the research assessment exercise in full. This would be politically disastrous for a government seeking to bring...
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Selective funding attacked by UUK
Universities UK has attacked the decision to fund research more selectively than ever before. The government has not provided enough money to reward improved performance, measured by last year's...
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Women inch into a male domain
Women and ethnic minorities are slowly muscling their way into the still largely white male field of academic economics, according to a report from the Royal Economic Society's committee on women in...
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Dundee firm widens access and draws talent
Cash machine giant NCR is giving £90,000 over three years to fund up to 30 computing and technology bursaries at the University of Abertay Dundee. The Dundee-based NCR Financial Solutions Group...
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Tube travellers' pollutant risk
London Underground passengers are regularly exposed to high levels of airborne particulate pollutants. The first comparative study of personal exposure to PM2.5 - fine particles of soot and other...
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Naked truth about Greece
Athletes' performing naked is considered a quintessentially ancient Greek custom. Scholars agree that widespread naked athletics began between 750 and 550BC, but little is known about the origins of...
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College bid mayset ball rolling
University College Worcester may be leading a new wave of bids for full university status from higher education colleges. Encouraged by the creation of the University of Gloucestershire, and buoyed...
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Scottish inventor is hot stuff
Researchers at Paisley University have helped a local inventor develop a device aimed at combating chip pan fires, writes Olga Wojtas. Jim McConkey's revolutionary fire-proof chip pan was this week...
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Dutch subsidy 'too high'
Dutch students should pay significantly more for their higher education, according to a government economic think-tank. In a study of the role of knowledge in the Dutch economy, published last month...
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Fighting corruption top of Serb students' hitlist
Serb students have drafted a policy paper outlining their vision for the reform of post-Milosovic universities. The Desired University identifies seven areas for reform that emerged from a December...
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Finns target master plagiarists
Guidelines aimed at cutting plagiarism will be drafted in Finland during the coming spring to cover dissertations at universities and diploma work at technical universities. The move was triggered by...
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News in brief
Paris Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist and philosopher, has died aged 71. Director of studies at the EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences), he was elected to the Collège de...