How to... Spice up life in a big group
WHAT - Kate Exley gives some tips on keeping students amused and focused when lectures are large and hours are long. WHY - So that students can join in activities that help fix new ideas and...
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Emotional statements
The article on Daniel Goleman's popularisation of emotional intelligence ("A time and emotion study", THES, June 4) cannot pass without comment. Goleman's recent book did much to popularise the...
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World hunger not on GM agenda
The biotech industry is desperate to sell the argument that we need genetically modified crops to feed the world ("Seeds of hope, kernels of truth", THES, June 4). I have no doubt that Michael Lipton...
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World hunger not on GM agenda
The claim is that GM technology can increase the total amount of food available. Millions of people are starving, but their starvation is caused not by shortage of food but by poor distribution of it...
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Who can, should pay
The National Union of Students has criticised tuition fees and attacked them as an assault on social justice. This argument hides two questionable assumptions. The first is that a means-tested...
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Mind your English language
Frank Furedi describes how lecturers are coming under pressure to pass students whose grasp of English is less than adequate. Recently, one of my former students, who now lectures in a new university...
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No artistis an island
How can lecturers assess a degree show that is: a) collective and b) full of art by very famous artists? The Leeds 13 give their view. At the time of writing, five of our tutors at the University of...
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In the stare of ravens
A student audience can unnerve the most experienced lecturer. Sean Neill analyses the hidden threats in looks and locations. At Twycross Zoo there used to be (probably still is) a red-faced uakari...
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An anatomist with her fingers on the pulse
Susie Whiten, winner of the 'Higher' Science Teacher of the Year prize awarded by The THES and the Royal Institution, talks to Alison Utley about her work as an anatomist. What makes a teacher...
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Star Turn
Melody Mellor meets a man who makes his adult students relive the sex and class warfare waged by 19th-century novelists. "It's a terminal condition, masculinity, and there's usually no cure," said...
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Researchers hoping to ride the new wave
Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of spacetime caused by violent events such as colliding black holes or exploding stars, writes Alison Goddard. First predicted by Albert Einstein in 1915...
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Pinning down gravity
Paul Bompard reports on several projects to detect and analyse gravitational waves. Two stainless steel pipes, 3 kilometres long, will soon be striking their way through the Tuscan countryside 15...
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How researchers are silenced by 'pact with the devil'
Confidentiality agreements are undermining the freedom of medical scholars across North America, reports Jon Marcus. Calling it "the greatest academic scandal of our time", North American faculty...
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Poll positioning
Kissing babies may have been an effective way of winning votes in the past, but today's politicians rely on techniques that are rather more sophisticated, according to researchers at Lancaster...
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Scientists examine North Atlantic 'sink'
Scientists from Plymouth and Southampton are among a group meeting in Bremen to decide how global warming is affecting the North Atlantic. They will examine ten years of data on oceanic levels of...