Couched concepts
Senior lecturer in psychiatrySt George's Hospital Medical SchoolLondon It is interesting to juxtapose Raymond Tallis's attack on psychoanalysis from the viewpoint of proper science with the...
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Canadian and US scientists slug it out over GMOs
Scientists on both sides of the genetically modified foods debate made sure they had their say when the UN held its conference in Montreal last week. Philip Fine reports As representatives of more...
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The kinder side of the E.coli bug
The fight against auto-immune diseasecould get help from an unlikely source, says Geoff Watts As the raw material for a new way of treating rheumatoid arthritis, the poison produced by a diarrhoea-...
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Influence or irrelevance?
Secretary of state for education David Blunkett asks whether social science can improve government policy- making Can the social science community help to improve government or is it destined to be...
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Veggies are good survivors
Vegetarians may have led the dinosaurs out of obscurity and into 140 million years of global dominance. Remains of two of the earliest known species of "terrible lizard" are helping vertebrate...
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Carrots could stop cancer
Eat your carrots - and oranges. Scientists have found indications that beta-carotene, the substance that gives carrots their orange colour, may protect against cancer by helping to repair DNA....
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Origins search looks to Titan
An important step has been taken towards concocting the chemical soup that may have led to the birth of life on Earth. A team from the Academia Sinica at the Institute of Atomic and Molecular...
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Why dons are all talk
One-to-one coaching helps academics to deal with the increasing pressure on their time. Pat Leon meets an energising existential psychotherapist. An hour with an existential psychotherapist is...
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Clinic leads to ill feeling
Staff at one of Israel's leading universities who score poorly on student feedback surveys are expected to volunteer to attend a "teaching clinic", writes Paul Jeffrey in Jerusalem. It is part of a...
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Course helps fight the flab
Weight-loss whizz-kid Paul Gately has not let the critical media coverage of the junior fat camp he ran at Leeds Metropolitan University last summer deter him from fighting the flab in Britain. He is...
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Move over Fawlty Towers
Strathclyde University is combating Basil Fawlty tendencies in the hospitality business with an innovative CD-Rom education programme from its Scottish Hotel School, part of the business school. A...
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Star Turn
Melody Mellor meets the microbiology lecturer who will stoop to anything in an effort to engage his overworked students. Third-year medical students have it tough. Only a few days after the...
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Why tests are not as simple as a, b or c
Students are discovering that multiple-choice questions miss the mark. Richard Burton and David Miller explain why. Ever-larger classes mean that Dr McQue is increasingly dependent on multiple-choice...
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College dean under fire
Staff and students at the London College of Printing have accused media school dean Sally Feldman of mismanagement and bullying in a row over academic freedom and dumbing down. Lecturers' union...
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Minister makes staffing a priority
Academic staff recruitment and retention are top priorities for education ministers bidding for more cash in the comprehensive spending review. Higher education minister Baroness Blackstone assured...