Tapping into adult passion
Iain Jones believes concepts of community and citizenship offer important insights both to Dearing and a Tony Blair government. The dignity of Frances Lawrence, the clamour to find folk devils to...
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Bar's metropolitan mindset
THERE are costs as well as benefits to the unbroken continuities of English history. The only monarch to be executed was Charles I nearly 350 years ago, there has been no revolution in more than 300...
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Serb minister hits back
SERBIA'S education ministry has condemned the "blind, destructive" student protests against the government's annulment of local elections. After almost two weeks of demonstrations, the ministry...
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Germany abandons fee reform
GERMAN education ministers have unveiled sweeping plans to reform higher education in order to make the system more cost-effective and competitive internationally. Under their proposals, students...
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Evasion of the body snatchers
The captain of a small fishing boat got quite a scare when a box he had been hired to dump at sea turned out to contain a skull, syringes and other medical waste mixed with human ashes. When the box...
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Race row unsettles campus coffers
A bitter dispute over Asian immigration and government subsidies to aborigines has alarmed senior academics in Australia. They have warned that the tenor of a national debate about race could damage...
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Pupils pool brains to improve GCSEs
TEACHING children to think for themselves can dramatically improve children's exam performance, educationists at King's College, London, have shown. A study by the college's school of education...
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Optometrists keep computer's eye on driving
A COMPUTER model simulating human vision could help improve road safety, University of Wales scientists believe. Researchers there are familiar with the physics and biochemistry of individual...
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Tories bust the record on crime
Conservative policy has failed to tackle Britain's chronic youth crime problem, according to research by Luton University. Researchers from the university centre for crime study say that the number...
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Screen search for siblings
MORE THAN 1,500 sets of brothers and sisters are being enlisted across the United Kingdom in a bid to discover the genes responsible for high blood pressure. Researchers at Aberdeen, Cambridge,...
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Finds query China's past
AN INTERNATIONAL conference on the Mysteries of Ancient China last weekend was told that the established perception of the centrifugal evolution of Chinese civilisation is out of date. The conference...
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Plea to protect franchise critics
AN ACADEMIC pressure group has called for greater protection for lecturers on overseas franchised courses when they raise concerns about standards. The Council for Academic Freedom and Academic...
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Getting the birdie
Serious alarm for ornithologically inclined staff at the Open University, already contemplating the possible loss of 350 jobs in a shake-up of the institution. Headline on a column in the latest...
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Chow-chow
When addressing a workshop about exchanges with Chinese universities, Roger Greatrex, professor of Chinese at Lund University, Sweden, stressed the importance of making sure Chinese academics had...