Robotic serpent will help the disabled
A snakelike robotic device that can give disabled people greater independence has been developed at Staffordshire University. The Flexibot was built by a team at the Centre for Rehabilitation...
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Dundee widens access and horizons
Dundee University is helping young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to raise sponsorship for voluntary work overseas. The Centre for Enterprise Management, opened this week by Wendy Alexander,...
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Critical dons fire at IT
A workshop at the London School of Economics will question whether too many businesses are taking a narrow, simplistic view of information technology and ignoring its wider social dimensions. The...
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Campus is perfect nurturer
Universities have a vital role to play in helping Britain to boost economic growth by increasing the amount of venture capital investment, a Centre for Policy Studies report concludes. Higher...
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£1m pot of gold for fairy-tale endings
A £1 million business plan competition, which aims to fast-track ideas from United Kingdom universities into high-tech companies, is inviting applications. The competition, which is funded by a...
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UK quality guidelines perpetuate colonialism
Our concepts and language are being pressed on the overseas partners of UK institutions, argues Pieta Monks The United States has lost the cold war. The West is in the throes of an economic...
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Letters: Publishers be damned
The logic of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society's decision to withhold payment of copyright royalties to members is misleading ("Royalties on hold in fee dispute", THES, March 9). The...
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Why I... believe psychohistory shouldacknowledge its founding father
Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson's work on psychohistory began in 1939, with the redrafting of an essay on the rise of Adolf Hitler. For Erikson, a Danish-German-American-Jewish-Protestant-agnostic yet...
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Hope for the homeless
When it comes to education, the homeless need all the help they can get, writes Carolyn Hayman. If entry to higher education took the form of a race, we would see students from private sector schools...
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It's the same 'old' story in HE
More work is required to make lifelong learning available for life, argues Brian Groombridge. Last month, when the government refuelled controversy over state-school students and elite universities,...
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What price progress?
When it comes to misconduct in research, can science ever be self-policing or does the sector need to rethink its strategy? Nicholas Steneck questions. During the second world war and continuing...
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Cutting edge: David Macdonald
Exploration of oil may have peaked in the 20th century, but petroleum geologists are still needed for environmental research and to predict the effects of global warming. Many United States oil-belt...
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Device tracks pigeon home
The secrets of homing pigeons are set to be revealed after the creation of an ultra-lightweight flight recorder that uses satellite tracking to plot each bird's exact course. The matchbox-sized...
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Bitter ideology united killers
The mass murderers of the Nazi regime were ideologically motivated Germans who were inured to their crimes by a spiral of political violence, according to the first systematic analysis of the chief...
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How to... Enrich a teaching portfolio
David Baume advises on how to inject a bit of soul into the bare facts that sketch a career. It takes years, even decades, to build a good research career, but it is a record of achievement that is...