New learning skill, new life off the street
While Labour leader Tony Blair was telling the Big Issue magazine his views on getting beggars off the streets, one of the magazine's vendors was putting his words into practice. Andy Loughe, who has...
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RAE forces HEFCE to juggle cash
The Higher Education Funding Council for England is preparing to balance difficult funding decisions for the next academic year against the financial impact of the research assessment exercise. After...
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Get social, skilled and chill out, academics told
Improved social support networks and the introduction of skills training could help academics cope better with stress, according to a stress expert, writes Chris Johnston. Susan Cartwright, a senior...
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'Messy' treaty for an electronic age
ACADEMICS and publishers are set to lock horns over the precise meaning of fair dealing as it relates to copyrighted material published and accessed electronically. Authors wish to define the scope...
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Sir Colin sticks up for the layperson
"I can't see a bigger issue than genetic science and its ethical implications now that the cold war is over." So says Nottingham University vice chancellor Sir Colin Campbell, who this month takes on...
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Wales gets genes jury
Researchers at the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care at the University of Glamorgan have set up a national Citizens' Jury to consider ethical issues surrounding human genetic engineering....
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Why the French get more satisfaction
Higher education lecturers are next in line to be scrutinised by a Loughborough University psychologist who has found that British school teachers are more stressed than their French counterparts....
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Subject can still serve ace
The maths curriculum may be in trouble, but the subject can still attract child prodigies. Twelve-year-old Sufiah Yusof is following in the footsteps of Ruth Lawrence, another gifted mathematician,...
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Changes don't add up for maths crusader ...
Roger Porkess does not look like a people's champion or a rabble-rouser. Retiring behind thick glasses, the white-haired 53-year-old looks more like the mild-mannered tertiary maths teacher he was...
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Dedicated student volunteers find ways to combat coursework and financial pressures
'It's beneficial for work' Kate Sarjent, a final-year student of mathematics at Nottingham University, juggles her studies with a position on the management committee of student community action and...
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NUS supports killer gas safety scheme
A call to introduce safety certificates for gas appliances in all properties has been backed by the National Union of Students. Nigel Griffiths, the Labour consumer affairs spokesperson, last week...
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Students help to help themselves
Hardship is changing the nature of student voluntary work. It is not making students less altruistic but it is making them more serious about gaining recognition for their efforts. And the recipients...
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How Cornwall creamed off tourism
Images of the "Cornish Riviera" which are still popular today stem from a railway advertising campaign of almost a century ago, according to Staffordshire University geography lecturer Chris Thomas....
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Fairer sex rules out physical geography
Are field trips too arduous for women? Olga Wojtas reports from the Royal Geographical Society in Exeter. Female students may be put off physical geography because they consider themselves too unfit...
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Field trips in danger
There is an urgent need for research into the value of fieldwork in order to defend it against continuing budget cuts, a reader in biogeography has warned. Martin Kent of Plymouth University said...