Brussels, 08 Sep 2005 ESA's Integral space observatory, together with NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer spacecraft, has found a fast-spinning pulsar in the process of devouring its companion. This...
Brussels, 08 Sep 2005 The European Innovation Workshop will be held in Edinburgh, UK, from 5 to 7 October. The event, organised by the European innovation initiative PAXIS and supported by the...
Brussels, 08 Sep 2005 A trends analysis workshop on the advantages of the use of product data technology (PDT) for life cycle assessments (LCA) will be held in Vico Equense, Italy, on 15 and 16...
State pupils to get more places at top universities The top universities are being pressed to operate a new admission system that would favour poorer students from state schools. Youngsters at inner-...
From : Jamie Targett. Director of Corporate Relations To : All Heads of Departments Subject : Post-Vacation Realignments Recent research by management consultants Grunt and Fardel (2005a) suggests...
This year's new undergraduates can expect a 2.1 for average diligence - but not for how to lead their own intellectual life Now that the annual squabble about declining standards at A level and GCSE...
Only when the full results are published later this month will it be fair to judge the success, or otherwise, of the first National Student Satisfaction Survey. But already a mixed picture is...
Anything that would make the process of admission to higher education fairer ought to be welcome. A system that relies on predictions (more than half of which are wrong) cannot be defended if there...
Hugh McCredie (Letters, September 2) is not alone in regretting the restrictions in making electronic journals available. University librarians have been grappling with this problem, which is in...
It is hardly surprising that the survey of PhD vivas revealed considerable unevenness and possibly unfairness ("Push for viva ground rules", August 26). Putting three or four people whose status and...
Universities used to be places where students could protest freely and peaceably against what they saw as oppressive policies and practices. Not any more, it seems ("'George Fox 6' could be jailed...
I am amazed at the straightforwardness of Adrian Furnham's study, which concludes that students with high IQ scores preferred unseen, timed exams ("Plodders prefer coursework, study finds", September...
Your report on Adrian Furnham's research claims that the least intelligent students prefer coursework to exams. But although Furnham has reported a link between self-assessed intelligence and...
Should it be surprising that students who do well answering unseen IQ questions, under time pressure in a single session, prefer to answer exam papers on the same model? Equally, it seems sensible...
No, honestly, I really did sit on my hands for a few hours before writing a response to yet another piece of "science" that says that men are more intelligent than women ("IQ claim will fuel gender...