Glasgow's Zero hero
Mary Hepburn, senior lecturer in women's reproductive health at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award by the Zero Tolerance Awards 2007. She was recognised for...
Search
-
-
A comic bit actor who's now 'bigging it up' with a bit of byte
It is hard to imagine the grey-haired and besuited head of Brunel University's school of arts playing a flame-throwing punk psychopath, but Steve Dixon is there in The Comic Strip Presents ......
-
Iraq's many wars
There is not "one" civil war in Iraq, nor "one" insurgency, but several civil wars and insurgencies between different communities, according to a study by Gareth Stansfield of Exeter University's...
-
Children in need at risk
Hundreds of asylum-seeking children are being put at risk because their age is disputed and they are treated as adults, according to the results of an 18-month research project funded by the Nuffield...
-
Weighty consideration
Researchers from Loughborough University have warned that the Government's initiative to monitor the weight and height of primary schoolchildren could force the debate on childhood health to become...
-
Labour-spotting device
A new device that predicts the onset of labour has been developed and trialled at Leeds University. The invention measures electrical signals in the womb to determine the date of childbirth up to two...
-
Tyre-less efforts
Engineers at Swansea University are investigating ways of recycling tyres to reduce the amount of rubber wasted. Nearly 50 million tyres are disposed of in the UK each year. Since July 2006 it has...
-
Crude recipe for a 'chicken-run' sector?
Performance targets are spreading despite the criticism that they destroy freedom of inquiry, Phil Baty writes. "A university is not a corporation making razor blades for a price in a particular...
-
US treads wary path on Israel
Unlike the UK, America rarely hears calls for an academic boycott of Israel. A desire to keep lines of communication open, or something more sinister? Jon Marcus reports. It didn't seem particularly...
-
World Encompassed
Dubai ruler invests $10bn in education The ruler of Dubai has donated $10 billion (£5 billion) to improve his nation's education system. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum will set up a charitable...
-
Why they now only fight for the right to party
Material wealth is effectively stifling the urge for mass political protest among students, argues Gerard DeGroot "Our butter stinketh!" militant Harvard undergraduates complained in the autumn of...
-
Gary Day
A guide to walking designed for the staff of Leicester University leaves nothing to chance My heart gave a little lift when I saw the title of a brochure from Leicester University. So, it had finally...
-
Slipping out of alignment
The University Alliance, launched just four months ago, has not got off to the best of starts. The grouping of universities that have not found a home with the Russell or 1994 groups or the CMU's...
-
Oil for the wheels of change
When it comes to watching the pennies and saving the planet, the University of Wales, Newport, appears to be leading the way in higher education. It announced this week that it is using waste chip...
-
The art of electronic moaning
We've all experienced it - that crushing embarrassment felt just after you've hit "send" on an e-mail and realised that you've replied to an audience way beyond the intended recipient. Hannah Topping...