Influence or irrelevance?
Secretary of state for education David Blunkett asks whether social science can improve government policy- making Can the social science community help to improve government or is it destined to be...
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Veggies are good survivors
Vegetarians may have led the dinosaurs out of obscurity and into 140 million years of global dominance. Remains of two of the earliest known species of "terrible lizard" are helping vertebrate...
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Carrots could stop cancer
Eat your carrots - and oranges. Scientists have found indications that beta-carotene, the substance that gives carrots their orange colour, may protect against cancer by helping to repair DNA....
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Origins search looks to Titan
An important step has been taken towards concocting the chemical soup that may have led to the birth of life on Earth. A team from the Academia Sinica at the Institute of Atomic and Molecular...
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Why dons are all talk
One-to-one coaching helps academics to deal with the increasing pressure on their time. Pat Leon meets an energising existential psychotherapist. An hour with an existential psychotherapist is...
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Clinic leads to ill feeling
Staff at one of Israel's leading universities who score poorly on student feedback surveys are expected to volunteer to attend a "teaching clinic", writes Paul Jeffrey in Jerusalem. It is part of a...
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Course helps fight the flab
Weight-loss whizz-kid Paul Gately has not let the critical media coverage of the junior fat camp he ran at Leeds Metropolitan University last summer deter him from fighting the flab in Britain. He is...
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Move over Fawlty Towers
Strathclyde University is combating Basil Fawlty tendencies in the hospitality business with an innovative CD-Rom education programme from its Scottish Hotel School, part of the business school. A...
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Star Turn
Melody Mellor meets the microbiology lecturer who will stoop to anything in an effort to engage his overworked students. Third-year medical students have it tough. Only a few days after the...
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Why tests are not as simple as a, b or c
Students are discovering that multiple-choice questions miss the mark. Richard Burton and David Miller explain why. Ever-larger classes mean that Dr McQue is increasingly dependent on multiple-choice...
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College dean under fire
Staff and students at the London College of Printing have accused media school dean Sally Feldman of mismanagement and bullying in a row over academic freedom and dumbing down. Lecturers' union...
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Minister makes staffing a priority
Academic staff recruitment and retention are top priorities for education ministers bidding for more cash in the comprehensive spending review. Higher education minister Baroness Blackstone assured...
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50 per cent participation in higher education
The government has given itself ten years to achieve 50 per cent participation in higher education. This is the first time it has put a timescale on prime minister Tony Blair's Labour Party...
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Universities and the private sector
Universities should extend links with the private sector, particularly in offering degrees via the web, Baroness Blackstone also said. She cited the success of the London School of Economics, which...
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Cubie members ready to act
Members of the Cubie committee may mobilise soon to urge the Scottish Parliament to implement their report in full. This contrasts with the muted response from Andrew Cubie. He said the committee's...