College target fears
The Association of Colleges has warned employment ministers that the New Deal welfare-to-work scheme could jeopardise colleges' ability to meet student number targets. John Brennan, AoC director of...
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Part-time working 'can harm studies'
STUDENTS' academic work may suffer if their part-time jobs take up more than ten hours a week, Paisley University research suggests. Jim McKechnie, senior lecturer in psychology, has surveyed more...
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Sociology's job spin-off
NAPIER University students may soon earn more than a pittance for menial part-time work - they may also be able to earn academic credit. Iain Marshall, senior lecturer in Napier's department of...
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E.coli danger lurks in vacuum-packed food
Some vacuum-packed chilled foods may not be as safe to eat as manufacturers and consumers think, researchers have warned. The treatment used to kill E.coli 0157 bacteria is less effective than food...
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Nurses lose ideals
Student nurses become "less idealistic and more realistic" as they progress through their training, but they still perceive listening to patients as the most important part of their caring function,...
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Probe for minefields
Engineers at Warwick University are looking at ways to help deal with the international problem of clearing anti-personnel land-mines. The work, funded by charities and the Engineering and Physical...
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Lice and statistics
Scientists at Strathclyde University are working on ways to tackle the growing problem of sea lice on fish farms without damaging the delicate ecological balance in Scottish sea lochs. Sea lice cut...
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Pravastin put to test
Investigators from Glasgow University, Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Cork and Leiden Universities are starting the first study of the effects of pravastin, a medication widely prescribed to prevent...
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People key to profits
Firms that concentrate too much on technology at the expense of people lose out, according to research from the London School of Economics. The study, for the Institute of Personnel and Development,...
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Resistance held in animal genes
A new class of antibiotic resistance gene has been discovered by scientists in Scotland. It may help to explain why some bacteria are immune to medicines despite containing none of the previously...
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Sports courses hit by eating illnesses
Students on sports-related courses are more likely to suffer from eating disorders than other students and the population at large despite learning about nutrition as part of their degrees. Diane...
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Anger as foreigner fills v-c vacancy
AFRICA. The appointment of the University of Botswana's new vice-chancellor - the third since it was founded in 1982 - has caused controversy because she was recruited from outside southern Africa....
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Kenya sends graduate aid
AFRICA. Kenya is sending its unemployed university graduates to help reconstruct the civil-war ravaged countries of central Africa's Great Lakes region. Laurent Kabila, president of the Democratic...
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South African exam disaster
AFRICA. Many South African universities and colleges will have to consider lowering their entrance criteria for students following disastrous school-leaving results last week. More pupils failed than...
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It's not what lecturers do, but how they say it
The sister of a faculty member at the University of Washington recently ran a search on his name on the World Wide Web. The first thing that came up was his student ratings - the spot verdicts passed...