The British Academy is not equipped to administer funding for the Arts and Humanities Research Board, argues Martin Dodsworth. The British Academy's headquarters in Carlton House Terrace, just down...
Several generations have been substantially switched off to further learning. They share a memory of education as something negative, remedial, enjoyed, if at all, under a regime of compulsion. How...
Germany appears to be the most industrially innovative country in the European Union, filing 43.6 per cent of EU patent applications with the European Patent Office in 1999. Its nearest rival, France...
The Joint Research Council's new director-general describes its harmonising role to Paul Bompard. The European Union's Joint Research Centre was founded in 1957 under the Euratom Treaty. It has its...
With drug-resistant tuberculosis still a danger, the search is on for weak spots in the TB bacterium and ways to attack them. Tuberculosis has claimed the lives of millions of people in developing...
The 17th-century Italian academics involved in the first scientific geological field survey were not guilty of allowing politics to dictate their conclusions. Andrew Scott, a palaeobotanist at Royal...
Scholars have devised a way to protect the integrity of sensitive documents from hackers by adding a hidden "watermark" in the syntax and grammatical structure of the text. The computerised approach...
To assist students with presentations, tutors should teach them to relax and help them prepare thoroughly, says Mark Griffiths. Most of us have suffered a little anxiety before speaking in public....
With the Teaching Fellowship Awards approaching, one of last year's winners tells Esther Leach how he is spending his £50,000 prize making web learning fun. Mick Short pulls out a pair of large,...
Q: I regularly send students off to the library but realise that I am probably out of date about what it has to offer. Any suggestions? A: The first thing to do is to make contact with the subject-...
Staff are seeking exams that will reduce workload. Gareth Holsgrove looks at the pros and cons of multiple-choice questions Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) have existed as an examination method for...
Turkey's ban on headscarves has spread to universities in the Turkish Republic of Cyprus, where restrictions on religious dress by female students are being increasingly enforced. Scores of students...
People are three times more likely to trust farmers than government ministers to tell the truth about foot-and-mouth disease. A survey carried out by Nick Pidgeon of the University of East Anglia's...
An urban myth that was reported as fact has led to worldwide stories that prostitution is rife among students in Leeds. James Cemmell, education officer at Leeds University Union, was quoted by a BBC...
Students attending the London May Day demonstration as peaceful protesters were angry that the actions of a few violent individuals reflected badly on them, said Scott Rice, president of the...