Lacking in evidence
After a successful British Educational Research Association (Bera) conference, it was disappointing to read Dennis Hayes' denunciation of education research across the whole of UK academia ("Forget...
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Plugging the policy gap
In your rush to stoke a non-existent dispute about metrics ("Humanities overlooked by politicians", 18 September), you missed the point of the British Academy's recent report on the contribution that...
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A stroke of luck
"The big marking experiment" (18 September) raises the following questions. The reported span among grades may be encouragingly narrow, but those differences might matter all the more in a finely...
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Universities of Kent and Sheffield Hallam - Bosses rule with an iron fist
New research has proven something downtrodden employees must have suspected for decades - our bosses control us through fear. Psychologists in the UK and Canada investigated the effectiveness of...
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University of Essex - Energy boost at Colchester
A new wind turbine has been installed at the University of Essex as part of its drive towards sustainability. The turbine has been placed next to the new School of Health and Human Sciences building...
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University of Manchester - Literary treasures to go digital
A 600-year-old recipe book compiled by the master cook of Richard II called Forme of Cury is among the items that can now be downloaded from the University of Manchester's John Rylands Library. The...
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Leeds Metropolitan University - Fans to mix with commentators
A festival giving sports lovers the chance to meet the journalists who write, report and comment on their favourite games kicks off this week. The inaugural Carnegie Sporting Words Festival is being...
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Anglia Ruskin University - Racial appeal thrown out
A student nurse's allegation that Anglia Ruskin University helped the Royal College of Nursing to discriminate against her has been thrown out by the Employment Appeal Tribunal. The nurse, Mrs...
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University of Nottingham - Power centre opens in China
A Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies has been opened by the University of Nottingham at its campus in Ningbo, China. The project, a collaboration between the UK and China, focuses on new and...
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University of Reading - Artificial intelligence tested
Will a machine be able to fool judges into thinking it is human? That is the question that will be posed at the University of Reading on 12 October when it hosts this year's Loebner Prize for...
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University of York - A North-South chemical divide
A "Chemical equator" divides the polluted air of the Northern Hemisphere from the much cleaner atmosphere of the Southern Hemisphere, researchers at the University of York have discovered. They found...
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Kingston University - Creatives to get business savvy
A new course at Kingston University aims to bridge the gap between "creatives" and "suits" in the advertising industry. The MA Creative Economy course is designed to help creatives understand what...
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Royal College of Art - Life before Starbucks
Viennese coffeehouses at the turn of the last century are the focus of a festival and conference to be staged by the Royal College of Art. The Vienna Cafe Festival and conference, beginning this week...
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University of Manchester - £5m grant for nuclear research
British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) has given the University of Manchester £5 million to develop its nuclear research programme and expand its training programmes for nuclear engineers. Under the endowment...
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Bangor University - Brain study to use new method
A pioneering approach is to be applied to a study of the way in which the human mind draws meaning from the world at Bangor University. Guillaume Thierry, deputy head of the school of psychology,...