Not so common spuds
A collection of 2,500 types of potato, many unique, faces ruin. Richard Rawles reports. In the 1930s, the Soviet plant geneticist Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov and his co-workers gathered a remarkable...
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Sights set on galactic birth
Astronomers have produced the deepest ground-based image of the sky, allowing them to probe galactic birth at an unprecedented scale. The team from the University of Durham used the Anglo-Dutch...
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A very random peer review
The peer review, one of the pillars of modern scientific method, is a perilously random process, according to a new study. Researchers have carried out detailed analysis of how the opinions of...
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Dino with trick up its sleeve
Pterosaurs, the largest creatures ever to fly, used the same engineering tricks to stay airborne as Barnes Wallace's wartime bombers. Scientists have discovered that the wing bones of the extinct...
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Vital stash of panache
Why isn't web study suitable for all? Because, Sally Brown argues, teachers need to know which students are staring out of the window. Olga Wojtas talks to an inspiring don Sally Brown, deputy...
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Star Turn
In a discipline sensitive to power, Olga Wojtas meets a woman geographer whose lack of arrogance inspires There is a popular belief that students are reluctant to spend time on topics that are not...
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UHI 'utterly condemned'
A damning report on the troubled University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) project was made partially public this week. The report, which found senior management had given staff the impression of...
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Gap year is more popular than ever
The number of students taking a gap year is up 7.3 per cent on last year, according to figures released this week. More than 22,000 students have accepted a full-time place starting in autumn 2001,...
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French research minister shows X-ray vision over project approval
France is to go ahead with plans to build a third-generation synchrotron on its home ground. Research minister Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg this week announced that the Soleil project, abandoned by...
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Beijing
The installation of condom vending machines in four Chinese university campuses over the past few months has raised fears among parents and teachers that they will encourage sexual promiscuity, while...
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La Paz
More than 30 students and professors at the Universidad Mayor de San Andres who ended their hunger strike last week after 16 days said that they would resume strike action in six weeks unless the...
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Bukavu
Rwandan troops occupying a province in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo shot and killed four students protesting against the arrest of lecturers who argued that Rwandan...
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Agony aunt
Term is starting and a new tutor group is about to walk through the door. How can I strike up a fruitful working relationship with my students and yet keep my distance? Martin Greenhow Senior tutor...
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How to Get a good starton the PhD path
WHAT An early emphasis on work that develops writing and research skills greatly benefits PhD students, says Moira Peelo WHY Students and their PhD supervisors often waste the early months of their...
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Quad squad
(Photograph) - Quad squad: Jim Craig, a theological student training to be an Anglican priest at Cranmer Hall, Durham, has swapped the quad for a quad bike while on placement at a north Yorkshire...