Wales gets genes jury
Researchers at the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care at the University of Glamorgan have set up a national Citizens' Jury to consider ethical issues surrounding human genetic engineering....
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Why the French get more satisfaction
Higher education lecturers are next in line to be scrutinised by a Loughborough University psychologist who has found that British school teachers are more stressed than their French counterparts....
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Subject can still serve ace
The maths curriculum may be in trouble, but the subject can still attract child prodigies. Twelve-year-old Sufiah Yusof is following in the footsteps of Ruth Lawrence, another gifted mathematician,...
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Changes don't add up for maths crusader ...
Roger Porkess does not look like a people's champion or a rabble-rouser. Retiring behind thick glasses, the white-haired 53-year-old looks more like the mild-mannered tertiary maths teacher he was...
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Dedicated student volunteers find ways to combat coursework and financial pressures
'It's beneficial for work' Kate Sarjent, a final-year student of mathematics at Nottingham University, juggles her studies with a position on the management committee of student community action and...
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NUS supports killer gas safety scheme
A call to introduce safety certificates for gas appliances in all properties has been backed by the National Union of Students. Nigel Griffiths, the Labour consumer affairs spokesperson, last week...
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Students help to help themselves
Hardship is changing the nature of student voluntary work. It is not making students less altruistic but it is making them more serious about gaining recognition for their efforts. And the recipients...
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How Cornwall creamed off tourism
Images of the "Cornish Riviera" which are still popular today stem from a railway advertising campaign of almost a century ago, according to Staffordshire University geography lecturer Chris Thomas....
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Fairer sex rules out physical geography
Are field trips too arduous for women? Olga Wojtas reports from the Royal Geographical Society in Exeter. Female students may be put off physical geography because they consider themselves too unfit...
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Field trips in danger
There is an urgent need for research into the value of fieldwork in order to defend it against continuing budget cuts, a reader in biogeography has warned. Martin Kent of Plymouth University said...
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A woman's place is on the street
Are field trips too arduous for women? Olga Wojtas reports from the Royal Geographical Society in Exeter. Homeless women's views of home are being investigated by a Reading University postgraduate....
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Gauls upset by Anglo-Saxon Web
Georgia Tech Lorraine in Metz, eastern France, the European branch of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, has become the first higher education institution in France to be taken to court...
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Danes divided over new minister
Jytte Hilden, Denmark's new minister of research and technology, has been given a mixed reception by the research and university communities. Although some were sceptical after judging her four-year...
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French find surplus francs in kitty
In what the French education minister Francois Bayrou described as a "pleasant surprise", an extra Ffr3 billion (Pounds 337 million) has been found for student support. The French government is...
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Baltic state annuls 'red' degrees
Lithuania's parliament has declared invalid degrees awarded by Communist party colleges during the Soviet period. The decision, described by the speaker of the parliament or Seimas, Vytautas...