Academics concerned about life science site
A giant electronic publishing site for life sciences research in the United States could undermine the interests of authors, British academics fear, writes Kam Patel. When mooted by the US National...
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QAA abandons grading system
League tables of universities' teaching quality are to be scrapped under the new quality-assurance regime, it has emerged. Ministers and funding chiefs appear to have lost the battle to maintain the...
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Students asked for cheat alert
Glasgow University's antiplagiarism software, used to uncover cheating in a first-year class, was developed in response to pleas from aggrieved students. Malcolm Atkinson of Glasgow's computing...
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Susan Ward, director of Glasgow University's new Centre for Exercise Science and Medicine
(Photograph) - Susan Ward, director of Glasgow University's new Centre for Exercise Science and Medicine, puts a student through his paces. Professor Ward said the interdisciplinary centre, which...
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Parliament 'misled' by funding council executive
College funding council chief executive David Melville "misled" Parliament during a select committee evidence session, the Public Accounts Committee said today. Professor Melville gave evidence on...
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Lightning strike
A magnetic resonance research centre is energising the economy of a bruised Manitoban city and bringing it to international notice A world-class research centre for magnetic resonance imaging has...
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Current sources for research funding
Each week this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk NATURAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA www.nserc....
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Agony Aunt
Q: I have quite a high proportion of students repeating one of my courses this year and would welcome some advice on keeping them motivated. * Simon Myerson, Motivational psychologist Insititute of...
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Unions rally to end discrimination at work
Trade unions will be asked to state that "systematic institutional sexism and racism" exists in British higher education, when they meet at this month's annual Trades Union Congress. A motion...
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German mini reforms start to bite
HAMBURG When Germany finally passed a reform of its higher education framework law a year ago, many critics dismissed it as a "mini-reform". Rather than a blueprint for revolution in Germany's...
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Oz students 'enrol in ignorance'
MELBOURNE When Australian students enrol at university they are generally ignorant of the implications of their decision, according to researchers at the University of Melbourne. By and large,...
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Rise of the fast food learning model
Barely 20 years old, the University of Phoenix is just a collection of suburban office buildings scattered over 13 US states, yet it has become one of the most influential distance- learning forces....
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Why I ... believe we churn out far too many graduates
It is a bit of a drag teaching students who only come to university to "come of age" because I find that they are not really committed to their work. This country suffers terribly from diploma...
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Gaia: 'one tough bitch' of a theory
The Symbiotic Planet
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The final monster of the deep
The Search for the Giant Squid