Vocational value fails to impress
Government efforts to raise the status and value of post-16 vocational qualifications have failed, a report published this week concludes. It says the gap between the aspirations of school-leavers...
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Fender outlines plans for extra students
Universities and colleges would be able to bid for extra students by promoting their most valuable features under proposals being prepared by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. A peer...
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Computers take elocution lessons
A research team from the University of Nottingham is developing a speech synthesiser that should give computers personalised voices. Mervyn Curtis, a lecturer in the department of electrical and...
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TLTP maps new terrain
Two million years flash past in a few seconds. Wind and rain wear away a Rwandan mountain top and clothe the lower slopes with soil. Animated graphics give a rapid intuition of the processes at work...
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Motor math
A Loughborough University project to develop computer based teaching material has been awarded Pounds 8,600 by the Esso Higher Education Support Scheme. Led by Steve Rothberg of the university's...
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Perfectly formed
Worcester College of Technology has invested a Pounds 239,000 Government grant in a computer-integrated manufacturing system from the Yorkshire firm Denford. It includes robots, an automated guided...
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Abstract number
(Photograph) - Abstract number: A mural to mark the life of local baker's son George Green, 19th-century mathematician and physicist, was unveiled at the University of Nottingham recently. The mural...
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The implausible pundits
Why do magazines and newspapers highlight the wrong academic arguments? Patrick O' Brien deplores the limited space newspapers and journals allot to book reviews For a long time I have been...
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Welsh chiefs fire single quality agency broadside
Welsh higher education heads have fired a warning shot at the planning group for a single quality agency in protest at plans for a "closely directed" quality regime. In their response to the group's...
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Atlanta, Georgia on their minds
Hockey has been Guy Fordham's passion since the age of 12. He began playing the game at Kingston Grammar School and found himself progressing from school team to county level and thence to the...
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Atlanta, Georgia on their minds
Normally Paula Radcliffe is to be found racing around campus or Bradgate Park in Loughborough at 7 o'clock each morning. In the evening, daylight permitting, it is the same routine. She runs 80 miles...
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The last generation
Men will become infertile by the middle of the next century unless certain man-made chemicals are banned, zoologist Theo Colborn tells Robert Allen. More than 30 years ago science fiction author...
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Funding turns on completion not pass
Len Arthur (THES, May 3) expresses concern regarding the method by which the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales is to fund part-time provision from next year onwards; in particular that...
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Patents is a virtue
Universities must make the most of their innovative ideas in science and technology to secure wealth for the nation, argues Ian Taylor British science is world class and builds on a tradition of...