Distance educators and their corporate partners in online instruction are following the path taken by the promoters of the first correspondence course, who were offering the public empty promises 100...
All the organisations involved in the recent agreement on quality assurance are keen to put on a good face and claim victory for their position. The truth is messier. A number of factors are at work...
Beecham and Wellcome, the two most resonant names in British pharmaceuticals, will not be the only casualties of the Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham merger. Rationalisation will mean job losses...
With a select committee about to start looking into HE, Gordon Marsden calls for an RAE that rewards all-round excellence. New century, new research assessment exercise. But will the 2001 RAE do the...
Tim Lang is disappointed by the new UK and European food bodies, dismissing them as political tools rather than consumers' champions. Last Wednesday, in a delicious coincidence, the top brass at the...
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WHAT Dyslexia is often misdiagnosed by educators, writes Jennifer Currie WHY Because disability law expects universities to have support structures. HOW Picture the scene: a first-year film studies...
Was Anglo-Saxon Britain invaded en masse or did just a handful of warriors attack? The answer lies in tooth enamel. Faced with two skeletons in an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery, how would archaeologists...
Many modern medicines are derived from plants. Clare Sansom takes a turn round a garden specialising in healing herbs. The healing power of chemicals in plants has been known for millennia. But when...
A medical researcher in Toronto sent intimidating letters to a rival's supporters. He now fears losing his job. Philip Fine reports. Last year, Gideon Koren was awarded Canada's first chair in child...
A father-and-son team believe they have cracked an age-old mystery of the heavens: why does the moon appear much bigger when it is rising or setting near the horizon than it does when it is high in...
Scientists are to create transgenic chickens that lay eggs crammed with disease-fighting human antibodies, writes Steve Farrar. A team of experts from Origen Therapeutics, a United States biotech...
Yale College in Wrexham, a further education college, is being forced to change its name by its American namesake, Yale University. The college, named Yale since 1972, submitted after a threat of...
The tigers of the Russian Far East have become the focus of two major international initiatives, writes Vera Rich. Fifteen joint Russian-United States teams - comprising game-wardens and ecologists...