Whistleblowers to call the tune
A bill to protect whistleblowers should soon be law, but few institutions are ready. Phil Baty reports Universities and colleges have been reluctant to introduce effective procedures for dealing with...
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Aberdeen staff clear to run
Aberdeen University is encouraging its staff to play a part in the new Scottish parliament by reassuring them that their jobs will be held open for them if they become MSPs. Duncan Rice, Aberdeen's...
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Assessments 'destroy' HE
An Edinburgh University professor has condemned current teaching and research assessment methods as part of higher education's slide in "a Dutch auction towards disaster". Ged Martin, giving his...
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Dutch feel business grip tighten
The Dutch education ministry has announced plans for modernising universities to help smooth graduates' transition to working life. Education minister Jo Ritzen is harnessing businesses in a...
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Boro FC invests in sports science
While champions Arsenal, whose scientific approach to training and nutrition has been credited for much of their success this year, won only the eighth league and cup double in English football...
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Review by Net mooted
AN INDEPENDENT systems designer believes he has come up with a reproach-proof system of peer review, which could end claims of prejudice and secrecy in dishing out research money. The idea from Peter...
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Ice art
(Photograph) - Pippa Dickens tested her artistic response to the bleak and alien surroundings of Iceland thanks to a travel scholarship from the Edna Lumb Artistic Trust. Ms Lumb, a scholarship...
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New spin on a political prince
Many political commentators affect to see in Peter Mandelson, minister without portfolio, the consummate modern political Machiavellian, a "prince of darkness". It was a description that found little...
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Machiavelli 'an overused hero'
Citations from Machiavelli are being seriously overused by writers on management, argued a paper at the "Machiavelli at 500" conference. Terry Berrow, lecturer in strategic management at the...
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Flower power
STUDENTS in the grip of exams are to take part in a trial testing whether their anxiety can be eased by a remedy made of flowers. Researchers in the University of Exeter's complementary medicine...
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Crime school
Over 60 per cent of youngsters excluded from school acquire a criminal conviction, research from the University of Southampton has found. The report, "Criminality of former 'Excluded from School'...
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Firemen's health
Fire brigades need to improve their sickness tests according to Bangor University's school of sports and physical education sciences. Many brigades use a simple step test to monitor fire fighters'...
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Living off the land
Following international concern about the impact of climate change, Bangor University's centre for arid zone studies is to investigate the lifestyle of three African communities dependent on communal...
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History for the future
Historians at Teesside University have won Pounds 300,000 from the English funding council's Teaching and Learning Technology Programme to conduct research into new ways of using computer software in...
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Short degrees approved by students and industry
An official survey of Italy's controversial three-year university diploma or short degree courses reveals that students are very satisfied with them despite allegedly poor teaching. Giorgio Alulli,...