Chants would be a fine thing
Are today's students and academics too busy to protest or are they just getting angry about different things? Harriet Swain reports Universities took to the streets during last month's May Day riots...
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If we could talk to the animals...
What do a honey bee's dance and a monkey's screech have in common? Marc Hauser describes how open-minded research is throwing up new insights into how animals think and communicate Have you ever had...
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A life less extraordinary
Jenny Newman quit life as a nun to pursue a career as a writer and academic. It was an agonising wrench but, as she tells Harriet Swain, cloisters, medieval traditions and hierarchies are as much a...
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Hands-on route to a TV career
Licences for new local TV stations are being welcomed by media academics and students, reports Gideon Burrows Breaking the gloomy skyline above the student houses on the outskirts of Manchester, a...
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When should animals suffer?
Declan Mulkeen and Simon Carter report on a survey of public opinions on animal testing We are often told that public opinion is shifting steadily against research that uses animals. But few studies...
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Cutting edge
Research to determine the layout of the molecular energy landscape may provide answers to key problems in the life sciences It is a perennial problem; you stick your favourite poster to the wall only...
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Early learning for docs
A London teaching hospital is sending its trainee medics back to primary school. Claire Sanders learns why training doctors is child's play The walls of Mary Seabrook's office in the heart of Guy's,...
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Star Turn
Scripting lectures like a playwright has won him accolades, such as Australian lecturer of the year, but the best prize has been motivated students. Julia Hinde reports It is graduation day at the...
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Agony aunt
Q. I read some negative comments about Institute for Learning and Teaching membership requirements in reports from the Association of University Teachers conference last week. Should I put my...
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How to
What. Many websites are visually stunning, but are total disasters in terms of user-friendliness and accessibility. Why. Web design is being led by 'creatives' who lack a grounding in usability,...
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It's never too late to learn
University is becoming a reality for many who did not make it the first time, writes Olga Wojtas I left school when I was 16," says Sarah Fusco, aged 33. "Nothing was expected of me at school, and my...
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Napier university opens up to give local learners a warm welcome
When the adult learning network suggested running a conference, we offered to host it and pay. Napier University thought it was important for outreach. It is about welcoming people into a university...
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Harvard scholarship a warning
British universities will lose bright state school pupils to America unless they overhaul their admissions systems, the leader of a head teachers' union warned this week. David Hart, general...
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Income lags behind expenditure in HE sector
Expenditure by higher education institutions rose by 5.4 per cent last year, while income rose by just 4.1 per cent, latest figures show, writes Harriet Swain. Data published by the Higher Education...
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Strings pulled in patent dispute
Columbia University has asked a US senator and former student to help clear the way to extend a profitable patent on a biotechnology process it developed. Without a change in the patent law, Columbia...