Dazzling tail lights
There is a new Moon on Tuesday, so the sky should be at its darkest. That will be perfect for viewing one of the most dazzling phenomena the heavens can offer - if it turns up. At about 10pm that...
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Mums give up more easily when partners do too
Mums-to-be wanting to quit smoking need to persuade their partners to give up also if they are to overcome addiction, research suggests. Researchers at the University of Wales, Bangor and Liverpool...
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East Europeans taste consumer concepts
Liutenitsa, a traditional Bulgarian tomato spread, could soon be on the menu in England as researchers at Bournemouth University introduce East European academics and business people to the concepts...
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In the bad books
'Lecturer Rob Slack was disciplined after repeated complaints that a colleague had made an "unethical" recommendation of two of his own texts to students' Was Rob Slack sacked by the University of...
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In the news
The career of National Union of Students president Andrew Pakes suggests that young people have a more relaxed attitude to sexuality than their elders. Now 26 and an active campaigner for lesbian,...
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Glittering prizes
Mo Mowlam, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, is to receive an honorary degree of letters from Coventry University. Baroness Chalker, former minister for overseas development, has been awarded...
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On the move
Malcolm Wicks MP (Labour, Croydon North), 51, former social policy lecturer at Brunel University and fellow of York University from 1968 to 1970, has been appointed chairman of the Commons education...
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Pilot takes off
A pilot programme for individual learning accounts in Yorkshire and Humberside is to be evaluated at Leeds Metropolitan University. The pilot is one of 12 backed by the Department for Education and...
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Guide to the job market
The National Centre for Work Experience has published a booklet for students explaining what kind of skills employers want them to have learnt from work experience. They include the ability to lead...
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Why I...believe men would take a contraceptive pill
Fred Wu. Senior lecturer in medicine at the University of Manchester, who is leading a research programme aimed at developing a mass-market male contraceptive Apart from condoms and vasectomy, there...
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Rise and fall of great subjects
The popularity of disciplines waxes and wanes. Which will still be taught in 2050, asks Adrian Furnham Which academic disciplines will have ceased to exist 50 years from now? And what new departments...
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Copiers caught red-handed by copyrighters
A special operation mounted by the Copyright Licensing Agency has uncovered large-scale illegal photocopying of books by students in central London. Lawyers acting for the CLA have told a Bloomsbury...
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Job skills built in to degrees
Ministers are to press universities to teach basic employability skills as an "explicit" part of the curriculum. The recommendation will be made in a report out next week. Institutions that fail to...
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Agony Aunt
Q) What is the legal position on photocopying materials provided through the internet and distributing them to students as teaching aids?; Raymonde Kilpatrick research and compliance manager,...
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How to... Give students the big picture
What - `Learning outcomes' are the latest buzzwords in higher education teaching. Phil Race looks behind the jargon and explains why everyone needs to get up to speed. Why - Learning outcomes give...