Creche barriers
A lack of childcare can limit choice for staff and students. Katrina Wishart looks at whether things have improved sinceour last survey almost a decade ago The campaign to create a nursery for...
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Madness in the method
It is not scientific inquiry that produces anti-science feeling but distorted ideas of what it means to be 'scientific', argues Mary Midgley Particular myths that have come down to us from the...
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Sights of special scientific interest
Scientists talk about objects in the natural world that have most touched them in a new series of Seven Wonders of the World, the BBC's bid to challenge popular misconceptions about science and...
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Value for money under scrutiny
The new quality agency for higher education, which begins work next month, may scrutinise the claims to excellence of institutions that charge top-up fees. The Dearing committee of inquiry is...
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Departmental duo promised by Labour
The Labour Party began the election campaign this week by promising more political clout but no more money for education and employment. The Department for Education and Employment will become the...
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Britain may be "over-investing" in higher education
A study by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics said this week that Britain may be "over-investing" in higher education, Money might be better spent on reducing the...
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Research papers
Readers can find research papers by accessing THESIS, The THES Internet service. The service is available at http://thesis.newsint.co.uk
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Ex-super hunts spoofers
SOUTHAMPTON Institute bosses have hired an ex-police chief to uncover the publishers of a "scurrilous" internal spoof newsletter. Ray Piper, a former detective superintendent with the Hampshire...
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Corporate unis threaten MBAs
THE "Corporate University" poses an "outside threat" to higher education and brings "attendant risks and large unknowns", warns the Association of Business Schools. In its oral evidence to Sir Ron...
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Anglia may face legal action
AT LEAST 75 final year student teachers are challenging Anglia Polytechnic University over its decision to deflate their final teaching practice grades. The students, who lodged academic appeals this...
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Proposals to change teacher training entry requirements
Proposals to change teacher training entry requirements would be an "absolute disaster" for university education departments, a lecturers union has warned. Nigel Gates, chairman of the Association of...
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Robotic welcome
(Photograph) - Robotic welcome: George Kynoch, Scottish Office minister for industry (left), has a close encounter with interactive sculpture Lautriv Chromagnon Medusa alongside its creator, Franz...
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Commons calls for law change on cloning
In its report The Cloning of Animals From Adult Cells expected this week, the House of Commons science and technology committee will call for changes in the law on human cloning, following the...
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Union calls for block on Scottish redundancies
THE Association of University Teachers Scotland has called on higher education institutions to stick to a policy of no compulsory redundancies in the wake of the Scottish Higher Education Funding...
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Don't you know that it's worse for girls?
Academics at the Institute of Education have developed a new model for assessing A level performance which shows that girls who did well at GCSE went on to gain up to around two A-level points fewer...