Whistleblowers: Policy broke data act
Bath University has been told to change its procedures for destroying student records after the information commissioner ruled that its policy breached the legally enshrined principles of "fairness...
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Students offer a shoulder to peers under pressure
Oxford University uses student counsellors as part of an innovative peer-support programme to identify those suffering from depression and encourage them to seek help, writes Anna Fazackerley. Elsa...
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Debt leads to sharp rise in cries for help
The human cost of the government's higher education policies is manifesting itself through an increase in student depression rates, university counsellors have warned. According to a survey carried...
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Fees threat to languages
The cost of tuition fees is threatening four-year language degrees at UK universities. From September, Exeter University will for the first time offer three-year language degrees as an alternative to...
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Morris tells Blair not to interfere
Former education secretary Estelle Morris has warned against government interference in education leadership and centralised target-setting without full consultation with the sector. Ms Morris told a...
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Bac plan is death knell for A levels
All existing school and college examinations would be swept away or "re-engineered" under a baccalaureate scheme proposed by academics at the Institute of Education. An English baccalaureate or...
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Science calls for help
Universities have a central role in staving off the impending skills crisis in science and technology, according to research this week from the Engineering and Technology Board. They must reach out...
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Handy book wins prize
Chris McManus, professor of psychology and medical education at University College London, has won the Aventis science writing prize for his book Right Hand, Left Hand. The junior category was won by...
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First female chairs
Oxford has appointed its first female professors of philosophy and theology. Dorothy Edgington, professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College, London, has been appointed to the Waynflete professorship...
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Welsh links to schools
An initiative to link disaffected communities and higher education in Wales was launched today by Welsh Assembly education minister Jane Davidson. First Campus will offer mentoring and learning...
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Correction
The Bioscience ImageBank is at http://bio.ltsn.ac.uk/imagebank , not at the address that was printed last week.
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Findings: Resolve gives good results
Students' good intentions to perform well in their degrees can sometimes come to nothing for reasons other than a packed social calendar, writes Natasha Gilbert. Researchers from the University of...
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Findings: Apes fingered in hand puzzle
UK scientists claim to have solved the puzzle of why more men than women tend to be left-handed. The answer, they say, is because our ancestors were that way, writes Natasha Gilbert. Richard Byrne...
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Defra scans hori*on for biosecurity risk
The government is commissioning a new research programme aimed at preventing epidemics such as foot-and-mouth disease. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs expects to announce...
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High-fliers grounded by low-tech facilities
Conservatism towards learning technologies in universities is blighting the prospects of brighter and more technically minded students, according to a report out this week. In Higher Education: Lower...