Peek at shark's private life
Scientists have gained a glimpse of the private life of one of nature's most feared creatures - the great white shark, writes Harriet Swain. A 3 metre female was fitted with a computerised tag that...
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Stars shine light on universe age
Light from four of the oldest stars in our Milky Way galaxy has been analysed in unprecedented detail, writes Steve Farrar. Astronomers hope their results will help place a more accurate lower limit...
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How To...Hold a tutorial in cyberspace
WHAT: Lyceum is a visual and sound software package for lecturers teaching online. WHY: tudents worldwide are able to tune in at any time, writes Steven Albert. HOW: The word lyceum conjures up...
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Star Turn
How do you make Colonel Blimp's contribution to the war relevant to an audience of school-leavers from Bradford? Alison Utley discovers an academic who does the trick. Our setting is unusual,...
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Like minds meet in the gutter
When Adrian Mourby asks creative writing students to submit a screenplay he finds a trendy obsession with sex, drugs and violence, but no originality I have never believed that one can teach creative...
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Cambridge says 'cull' was road to stability
Cambridge University spent Pounds 10 million on a "staff cull" last year, shedding 156 people through early retirement and saving potentially Pounds 2.5 million a year. Many remaining staff face an "...
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Cabinet's mini-skirt mania
Keith Gibbins looks back on his 15 minutes of fame with affection and amusement. Papers released under the 30-year rule last week show that his "mini-skirt project" prompted serious concern in...
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Eco archive bequest dubbed a 'snub' to US
Italy's superstar semiologist Umberto Eco has left one of his early manuscripts, a translation of Raymond Queneau in long-hand, to the manuscripts archive of the University of Pavia, Italy's most...
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Tuition cost hits assistants' purse
The University of Toronto's 2,500 teaching assistants are starting their semester on the picket line. They are joining colleagues at McMaster University in nearby Hamilton who have been on strike...
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Islamic links
The Encyclopaedia of Islam is available on CD-Rom and makes use of cross-referencing hyperlinks previously unseen in electronic publishing. It contains indexes with hyperlinks to main text and allows...
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V-cs submit to quality blueprint
Vice-chancellors and principals have caved in over plans for reporting the quality of university teaching, accepting a blueprint they condemned as "unacceptable" just weeks ago. The climbdown by the...
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Unions demand 46 days' leave minimum
Scottish unions and management are poised for a crunch meeting on Wednesday in a bid to stave off potential disruption at seven institutions. The management at Scotland's five new universities, Queen...
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Team picked to save Earth from asteroids
Three experts have been appointed to a "near-earth object" task force to assess the potential danger to the earth from asteroid strikes, the government announced this week. The committee will be...
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Girls try harder to beat the boys, study shows
Girls outperform boys at GCSE level partly because they know they have to try harder to make the grade in the male-dominated workplace, according to new research. Becky Francis, at Greenwich...
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Graduates urged to shape own destinies
Northern Ireland's new graduates should set their sights on becoming entrepreneurs rather than bureaucrats, Robert Cormack, pro vice-chancellor of Queen's University Belfast, told a graduation...