QAA told to rethink its award rankings
The Quality Assurance Agency has been forced to take its blueprint for a national qualifications framework back to the drawing board after overwhelming protests. A chorus of disapproval has persuaded...
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The not so odd couple
Poor career guidance and isolation are issues for many women working in science, technology and engineering. Mixed-sex mentoring may be a solution, as Sharon Ann Holgate finds out. "It was a...
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Agony aunt
Howard G. Allen Emeritus professor of structural engineering University of Southampton A : Students want to perform well but worry about what is expected of them. Most welcome useful advice. But for...
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How to... get a seminar group to sizzle
WHAT : Tutors often find it an uphill struggle to get students to open up in group debate about their studies and ideas WHY : Kate Exley argues that getting students to help set the ground rules can...
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Healthy marriage is on the rocks
Teaching and research are the perfect pair, not foes, Stephen Rowland insists. The argument for a divorce between teaching and research comes in various forms, but its logic boils down to this: some...
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Snowballing, but still very much in control
Real Science
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First impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by an author who snooped around the seedy streets of criminal Chicago: " The Treloar Building was, and is,...
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Priests stumbling on the mysteries
Almost like a Whale - The Sacred Depths of Nature
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From hominids to blind dolphins
The Indus River
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Something to get in a flap about
The Biomechanics of Insect Flight
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The nothing machine
Evolutionary Genetics
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Time to work on your fitness
Darwinian Dynamics
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When it comes to sex, we're just like the other animals
Why Sex Matters
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Making a case for brain gain
Neural Transplantation