Building the foundation for a learning country
The assembly is committed to seeing higher education remain the linchpin of Wales, argues Jane Davidson. When Labour came into office in 1997, universities faced a crisis because the previous...
Search
-
-
Why I... think universities are becoming anti-intellectual
Last November I received a visit from Rosa, a first-year sociology undergraduate from another university. Rosa told me that she was looking to transfer to a different sociology department and wanted...
-
Securing offshore interests
UK institutions operating abroad should encourage quality controls for the good of international education, says Ray Wild. The internationalisation of British higher education is a long and...
-
Fairness lies within
Cambridge's internal equality audit could be a model for higher education, says Gill Jackson. The government is well known for its commitment to widening access to our leading universities and to...
-
Re-user friendly data
Researchers are being forced to recycle and duplicate papers in a system that rewards quantity with funds. Ard Jongsma reports One in five researchers recycles previously used results in response to...
-
Cutting edge: Jeffery Schall
Forget the homunculus - the brain may have a supervisory system that helps it to learn from success and to correct mistakes When the young executive asked the retiring CEO how he had learnt to make...
-
Bones reveal malaria trail
Scientists have extracted malarial DNA from the ancient skeleton of a Roman child. The discovery is by far the oldest direct evidence of the killer disease and will help scientists trace the spread...
-
Oldest evidence of leprosy in UK
The oldest DNA evidence of leprosy in the British Isles has been identified in the remains of a teenager from a late Viking-age grave in Orkney. Michael Taylor and colleagues at Imperial College,...
-
Names to be reckoned with
Chryssa Kouveliotou, Sergei Odintsov and Mirjam Cvetic may not be household names, but a statistical analysis has shown them to be among the most influential and well-connected scientists in the...
-
Look at that figure
Why are monstrous moonshine theorems more interesting than other concepts in mathematics? Simon Colton sums up the allure of the pure In many ways, pure mathematics is as much an art form as a...
-
Agony Aunt: electronic work
Q: I have noticed that some courses areallowing students to submit work electronically. What does this mean forsecurity and marking? A: Given that students can already download other people's work...
-
Star Turn: Beaumont and Williams
David Mosford meets the duo who put the fun back into photobiology. The names Beaumont and Williams may not have the resonance of Cannon & Ball, but these two biochemists are bringing showbiz...
-
Rookie authors are entitled to crow
Students at Dalhousie University in Canada lacked an adequate textbook, so they wrote one themselves. When professor Stephen Cheung began teaching his course, he had no textbook. By the time his...
-
Minister denies fee-payers get special treatment
Australia's vice-chancellors and education minister have issued a joint statement across Southeast Asia refuting claims that Australian universities are manipulating examination results in favour of...
-
Colleges celebrate growth in applicants
Applications for university and college courses starting this autumn have bounced back, while provisional admissions figures from Oxford University show that the success rate of state and independent...