Degree system is 'third rate'
Quality watchdogs have called for a review of the honours degree classification system following new concerns over "grade inflation". A report which shows big rises in the proportion of first-class...
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Heartening news for equality
Men and women have the same survival rate from heart attacks, according to a study of coronary heart disease. The findings refute the belief that women are more likely to die. Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe,...
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Research cash-till rings teaching crisis
Research and teaching at Danish universities are threatened by an increase in the number of lecturers who receive external research funding and no longer need to teach. As a result, the universities...
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Animal rights and wrongs
It was a great surprise to see Roger Scruton, a right-wing ideologist and keen hunting man, writing for Demos, a respectable left-wing academic think tank. But it was a shame to see him espouse such...
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Obscene but not heard
How can international law ensure children are not ill-treated? Chris Johnston reports A 17-year-old boy is punched, kicked and thrown against a wall during interrogation. His captors pull on his ear...
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Hope for coma patients
A chance observation in a coma patient study has revealed that doctors may soon be able to predict which patients will eventually wake up. A neuropsychologist at Surrey University was looking back...
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Ashdown pledge
Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat leader, has restated his party's commitment to invest an extra Pounds 2 billion in education, paid for with a penny on income tax. Early years learning would be...
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Centre stage
James Dunbar-Nasmith, emeritus professor of architecture at Heriot-Watt University, can perhaps style himself a "theatrical knight" following the Queen's Birthday Honours. Sir James, who was for ten...
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CVCP gets ahead with a haircut
(Photograph) - The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals has become that much harder to dismiss as a body for the staid and conventional with the election of Mike Fitzgerald, vice chancellor...
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Turbines turn on British white heat of technology
Materials scientists in Cambridge and Wales are designing high-performance materials that could give British aeroengine makers the edge over competitors abroad. Project leader Colin Humphreys of...
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Survey eyes PhD career paths
The European University Institute in Florence is to coordinate a survey of postgraduate students' employment after they finish their studies. The initiative follows a conference of 80 academics,...
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Animal rights and wrongs
While I would agree with the general thrust of Roger Scruton's article that assigning rights to animals is a nonsense, I cannot agree with the acceptance of human rights that he uses as the basis for...
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Out of this world
In the second of our series on favourite films, Ian Christie describes how he overcame critical prejudice against Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death I've come to realise that my...
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Cabinet post
(Photograph) - Cabinet post: Palestinian human rights campaigner Hanan Ashrawi has been confirmed as higher education minister in Yasser Arafat's first cabinet by the Palestinian legislative council.
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Touch of glass
Touch of glass: Hundreds of children conceived at Bristol University IVF Unit attended a tea party at Ashton Court Mansion to celebrate Focus on Fertility week last month. Some 750 babies have been...