Why engineers must go back to nature
Kam Patel reports on an initiative that aims to inject green ideas into Britain's engineering courses. Engineers must be aware of their stewardship of the planet, not just during their lifetime but...
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Sixth-form reforms fan fears
MIKE BENSON Universities fear plans to reform the sixth-form curriculum may damage quality and leave prospective students with little time for essential extracurricular activities. A consultation by...
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Part-time teaching 'erodes quality'
The casualisation of teaching in further education is damaging quality, the college inspectorate has warned, writes Phil Baty. Highlighting persistent problems with teaching standards in his annual...
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QAA framework plans slammed as 'pointless'
Quality chiefs' proposals to end inconsistency in the level and nomenclature of higher education qualifications have been dismissed as "pointless" by an expert on progression through higher education...
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Scots politicians rally to ancient universities over axeing undergraduate MA title
Scottish politicians are adding their weight to protests from the ancient Scottish universities over proposals to axe their distinctive MA title for undergraduate degrees, writes Olga Wojtas. The QAA...
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On the move
David Fussey, vice-chancellor of the University of Greenwich for more than six years, is to retire early, because of ill-health. He will leave the university at the end of next July. A new...
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Glittering prizes
Performance poet Benjamin Zephaniah is to receive the honorary degree of doctor of letters from the University of the West of England. UWE has also appointed Jennifer Bone, vice-chair of the Society...
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'Swift' action on ray bursts
British astronomers have won approval to build and launch a spacecraft to study mysterious, violent bursts of gamma rays. Last week Nasa selected the spacecraft, called Swift, as one of its key space...
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Keeping the doctor away
A survey from the 1930s could reveal important links between diet and disease, says Steve Farrar The cardboard boxes, crammed with yellowing papers, looked anything but precious. Yet when the Bristol...
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Finger-pointing may help drivers...
An "intelligent" car with a "virtual" dashboard that obeys the driver's commands by responding to hand gestures? That'll be the Daewoo, as the Korean car-maker's advertisements like to say. But...
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...and aid disabled using computers
People with severe disabilities may soon be able to "train" computers to interpret their individual gestures. Stephen McKenna and Ian Ricketts of Dundee University's department of applied computing...
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Danes put African fauna on the map
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have drawn the first comprehensive maps of the distribution of more than 3,900 species of birds, mammals, snakes and amphibians in sub-Saharan Africa. The...
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Magnetic model of the earth unveiled
A Danish satellite launched in February has produced the first accurate map of the Earth's magnetic field for 20 years. The satellite - which is named after Hans Christian Orsted (1777-1851), a...
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Cutting edge
Apparitions exist, there is no question in my mind that the phenomena described as apparitions are real. But what are they? For more than a century, the Society for Psychical Research has collected...