Experts to foster creative thinking
THE MAN who will head a government think-tank on creative thinking said its job was to look at the conditions under which innovative ideas thrive, not to teach them. Ken Robinson, professor of arts...
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It's official: grammar's gone downhill
POPULAR claims that graduates can no longer spell or present a coherent argument have some foundation, according to new research that has uncovered a decline in literacy among students, particularly...
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Good teaching carrot
How to reward universities financially for excellence in teaching is for the first time a subject of a new funding council committee study, chaired by Ron Cooke, vice-chancellor of York University....
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Euro-science infighting
Europe's Council of Ministers was meeting yesterday to consider the amended Fifth Framework Programme for science research. Debate was expected to focus on a legal threat to the European Commission's...
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Researchers in waiting
Contract researchers yesterday called on the Association of University Teachers to put pressure on research councils to manage their deadlines for funding decisions better. They say that councils...
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Director's star billing
The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council has appointed Adrian Russell as the first director of the Edinburgh-based United Kingdom Astronomy Technology Centre. The ATC's mission will be to...
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How easily will they turn in cache and accept checks?
Military bugs, illegal guns: Huw Richards on the threats they pose. Decommissioning in Northern Ireland will get a higher profile once other elements of the peace process have been resolved. Colin...
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'Bully' case pending
Anglia Polytechnic University's audit and compliance committee has failed to reach a decision about allegations against business school head Hugh Jenkins. Charges of nepotism and bullying made by a...
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Biological fears hang over Iraqi equation
Military bugs, illegal guns: Huw Richards on the threats they pose. MISSING, but feared still extant - 25 ballistic missiles and 166 spray bombs armed with biological agents designed to spread...
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Cyclists use more energy than drivers
People who cycle to work could be using up more of the earth's energy supply than those who drive, according to research at Exeter University. David Coley, a research fellow at the centre for energy...
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Anti-exclusion plans are too narrow
The government's plans to end social exclusion may not work, according to the president of the Royal Economic Society. The key thrust of the government's Social Exclusion Unit is the welfare-to-work...
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Fear of poverty has little to do with money
The middle classes of "Middle England" fear poverty more than the working classes, according to research at the University of Luton. "Very few people seem to know how poor or how rich they actually...
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Grocery shoppers do shop around
SUPERMARKETS may have to look again at customer loyalty as research reveals a less than faithful side to shoppers. Robert East, of Kingston University's marketing department, surveyed shoppers who...
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Backpackers are good-value tourists
Governments in less developed countries often ignore the impact of backpackers on their economies, says Mark Hampton, a development economist at the University of Portsmouth. Dr Hampton is...
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Bangor acclaimed for beach clean-up
Ocean scientists at the University of Wales, Bangor have devised a natural, inexpensive means of cleaning oil-polluted beaches. The biodiesel solvent is more effective and less toxic than current...