'Revamp social work training'
A leading university social work professor has called on the government to recommend radical changes in the training of social workers in its forthcoming social service white paper. Just before...
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Ex-registrar advises on moans
A FORMER university registrar has set up a consultancy to advise students on making complaints. The gamekeeper-turned-poacher is Cliff Hancock, who was academic registrar at Bath College of Higher...
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Bird call
(Photograph) - Bird call: the Moa (above) found its encounter with Homo Sapiens fatal, but Eric Buffetaut of the University of Paris 6 and Jean LeLoeuff of the Musee des Dinosaures believe that birds...
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Cards keep tabs on students
SMART cards that allow students to borrow library books, enter secure areas and pay for goods without cash could also be used to track their movements. A study by Nottingham Trent University of how...
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Bain tackles sectarian dispute
The new vice chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, George Bain, is facing a sectarian dispute. The university senate has overturned a vote by undergraduates asking for Irish language signs in...
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Anti-blood clotting breakthrough is close
SCIENTISTS are a step closer to understanding and synthetically producing heparin, the life-saving drug that stops blood clots forming after major operations. Researchers, led by Robin Carrell of...
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How to improve bringing up baby
THE transfer of nutrients from a mother to her baby in the womb is under study at Manchester University. Colin Sibley and his colleagues in the department of child health are investigating the single...
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Survey to help shape European transport
INDUSTRIAL designers at the University of East London are taking part in an Pounds 800,000 European-wide project to help shape the future of transport planning. The university's Industrial Design...
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Southampton gets Pounds 3 million research unit
RESEARCH into such common disorders as asthma, heart disease and osteoporosis has been boosted by the creation of a Pounds 3 million clinical research unit. The result of a collaboration between...
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Sex makes men live longer, says report
SEX may help middle-aged men reach old age by reducing the risks of heart disease and other illnesses, according to findings from Bristol University. A study divided 918 middle-aged men into groups...
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Buy a Teletubby now to avoid short-term regret
ACADEMICS have tuned in to the children's hit series Teletubbies to assess the impact of its phenomenal success on adults and children. Gregory Woods, reader in lesbian and gay studies at Nottingham...
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Bristol fashions rocket for near space travel
A TWO-HOUR journey time from England to Australia has come a step nearer with a new development in rocket engines. Scientists at Bristol University have devised a heat exchanger ten times more...
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Pride comes before benefit fraud
MANY social security fraudsters do not conform to stereotypical views on their motives, a research project has found. Although their reasons for fiddling the system were partly financial, there was...
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A consuming addiction
People have 75 per cent more cash to spend than they did 20 years ago, turning shopping from a utilitarian into a leisure activity. But there are pitfalls such as debt and addiction to buying. Chris...
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Sit-ins backfire on fellow students
Thousands of Greek university students face losing a semester because of occupations by militants protesting at education ministry legislation. The semester will be lost because the rules demand...