Over-50s lose out on learning
HIGHER education is still failing to meet the needs of "older learners", adult education chiefs said this week, writes Tony Tysome. While universities and colleges are increasing their intake of...
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Insight to sight lines
A news round-up from the third conference on consciousness in Tucson, Arizona A patient who is unable to recognise the shape of objects or their spatial orientation has given insights into the...
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'Mystic' beliefs prevalent
A news round-up from the third conference on consciousness in Tucson, Arizona More than a quarter of scientists and academics exploring human consciousness believe that "personal consciousness...
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Local power growing
LOCAL government has sharply increased public involvement in decision-making over the past four years, according to research carried out for ministers. Researchers at De Montfort University and the...
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One stop for new foods
The food industry is being offered a "one-stop service" to develop products by researchers at the Robert Gordon University. The university's school of food and consumer studies has formed Sensate, a...
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Euro challenge to US
The Euro could displace the dollar as the major international currency outside the United States and Asia if financial markets integrate rapidly enough, researchers say. Economists Richard Portes of...
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Wet reply to weather
The water industry is responding poorly to climatic events, but aggrieved customers should stop complaining and "learn to adapt to the results of climate change", according to research from Reading...
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What bosses want
A Pounds 100,000 research project will assess the skills employers seek in students and the curriculum changes that instil them. The two-year study will be run by Middlesex University Business School...
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Yeltsin backlash among students
A SENIOR official in Russia's Sverdlovsk region has resigned following forceful police action against a student demonstration in the capital, Yekaterinburg, last month. Anatoly Gayda, deputy head of...
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First pay offer in 12 years rejected
Indian university lecturers have rejected a salaries and promotions package - the first for 12 years - as "deceptive" and an "insult". They say that the proposal ignores the rise in the cost of urban...
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Danes reshufle research
RESPONSIBILITY for Danish university research funding is transferring from the ministry of education in a shakeup following March's general elections. Research will in future be handled by the...
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Setback for the genome project
ITALIAN biologist Renato Dulbecco, Nobel prize winner for medicine in 1975 for his research on DNA-cancer links and one of the most revered names in Italian scientific research, has said he may...
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First move towards Euro-PhD
THE FRENCH and Italian rectors' conferences have agreed on a research doctorate recognised by both countries and jointly regulated and funded. The two countries will contribute the equivalent of...
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Criminals lodged on campus
ACCUSATIONS that the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has become a criminal base for guns and drugs trafficking are being investigated by the local district attorney. The investigation was...
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Peking celebrates a hundred
Oxford University vice-chancellor Colin Lucas is to share a platform with Chinese president Jiang Zemin during celebrations for Peking University's 100th anniversary next week. President Jiang will...