Very model of a modular approach
The popular image of modular courses as incoherent "pick 'n' mix" programmes is unfounded, a national survey has concluded. Most modular systems set students on pre-determined paths rather than...
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Evolution of pop scientists
Why is Jon Turney so sour about John Brockman and so scornful of his authors (THES, May 10)? Brockman's achievement is to have persuaded regular scientists to write for a general audience. That has...
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UK last in G7 research league
The United Kingdom has notched up the lowest growth in expenditure on research and development over the past ten years among the Group of Seven leading industrialised nations, according to figures...
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Welsh tie to tropics
The ecology of tropical coastal zones is the subject of an unique joint between the University of Wales and Khulna University in Bangladesh. The British Council and the Overseas Development...
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Dramatic role for research
Drama research is taking its place on the European stage with academics locked in debate on its merits. A clutch of publications is set to appear, giving drama researchers a forum for argument on...
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Thanks to Japan for the memory
A Pounds 4 million agreement between Edinburgh University and a leading Japanese drug company may lead to better treatment for stroke victims and people suffering from neurodegenerative illnesses...
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DIY old age gets a no vote
There is very little support for the idea that individuals should pay for their own care in old age, or that of their relatives, early results from a national survey of people's attitudes suggest....
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An electronic whiff of what bulls fancy
Engineers at Glasgow University are trying to sniff out a dairy herd problem with the help of an electronic nose. John Barker, professor of electronics and electrical engineering, who is leading the...
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Summer cum laude in Saratoga Springs
Things begin to heat up at Skidmore College, a liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, up-state New York, when the students leave for the summer. Children as young as six arrive for basketball and...
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Congress watch on campus crime
The case of an Ohio student allowed to continue college after admitting a drunken sexual assault on a woman classmate has helped renew the controversy over the handling of campus crime. In a two-page...
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Clubbers send happy smoke signals
Canadian university clubs have a place for everyone from rifle enthusiasts to until last year, left-handers. If there is a favourite activity or cause, chances are a group of students will start a...
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Bible belt whipped into fury over 'sex'
Bible Belt morality and Internet sex do not mix - as the University of Oklahoma is discovering. The campus is the latest battleground in a national debate over electronic censorship. This spring the...
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PM chooses an 'unknown' as minister
New Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar's choice of a relatively unknown politician as education minister has left many academics wondering what she will have in store for universities. Esperanza...
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Bar-Ilan found not guilty
An inquiry into Israel's Bar-Ilan University, established after the assassination of Yitshak Rabin by one of its students, has largely cleared the university of contributing to the political...
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Germany sows its R&D seedcorn in foreign fields
German industry is turning its back on its own country and investing in research and development abroad, according to a federal government report on the state of German science. The report says...