Foreign language teaching tips swap
A Government-funded knowledge exchange has been created to disseminate best practice in foreign language teaching in the workplace. The Network in Vocational Foreign Languages, dubbed Hevocal, is a...
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Privatised focus for Royal stargazers
The Royal Observatories could be privatised and the management of the United Kingdom's overseas telescopes in Hawaii and the Canary Islands should be contracted out, according to a review and as...
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Bathed in glory
Such is the relationship between Bath University and the city's rugby club, that it is difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins. Richard Mawditt, ex-registrar of the university and...
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Scientists take a mystical turn
Popularisers of science have become as dogmatic as the 17th-century church that rejected Galileo's theory, a conference on God and Science heard last week. Some scientists are making mystical claims...
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Dawkins lecture
Richard Dawkins, the outspoken proponent of natural selection as the sole machinery of biological development, last week launched his latest attempt to persuade the world that no religious...
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Oxbridge wins donation race
British universities raised an estimated Pounds 114 million in donations last year, according to a survey by fundraising consultants Oxford Philanthropic. But the donations were unevenly distributed...
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Helmet helps dyslexics
A Swedish exchange student at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen has developed a helmet that will help research into the problem of dyslexia in children. Johannes Linnman has won first prize in...
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No flies on Sussex robotic scientists
The normal response to the buzz of two flies forever chasing each other around a lamp is to swat them. But for researchers at Sussex University the flies' behaviour is a source of amazement. It...
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Elvis is alive and well and digital
Elvis Presley and John Lennon are set for a spooky comeback. A research project at Oxford University is developing the perfect electronic replication of their voices. PhD student Ken Lomax, at St...
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Lessons of elections
Tanzania's elections last year represented real progress towards democracy, but there is still some way to go. Robert Pinkney, of the University of Northumbria, told the annual conference of the...
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Why Teesside is bad for your health
Why do pregnant women smoke? The question is one of several puzzles to be unravelled by the centre for health and medical research opening at Teesside University. Director Peter Kelley says that the...
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Caribbean as she is spoke
An academic has just published the first known dictionary dedicated solely to the branch of English known as Caribbean. But the pioneering work, which has taken almost 25 years to compile, is out-of-...
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Las Vegas backs casino careers
A PhD in roulette? Master of blackjack? The study of gambling is spreading rapidly at United States colleges and universities on the back of a booming industry. "I always tell my students,'We are...
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Premier declines honorary degree
Ralph Klein, the premier of Alberta, Canada, has refused an honorary degree from the University of Alberta after protests by students. Mr Klein, whose Progressive Conservative government has been...
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Honorary degree for Qiao Shi
In Saskatchewan an honorary degree for the former head of China's secret police has proved controversial. Qiao Shi, now chairman of China's National Congress, did not, however, decide to decline his...