How to ... Help students who fail exams
WHAT - Moira Peelo and Terry Wareham consider what lecturers can do when promising students perform badly WHY - Failure is part of university life and yet a failed student can say as much about the...
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Star turn
Jennifer Currie meets a man prepared to make a spectacle of himself in the name of a total solar eclipse Not many people would be brave enough to address a packed lecture theatre from behind a pair...
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Cutting edge
Assessing patients' vulnerability to pressure sores is a major problem for the NHS. New research into the risks they face could help By the standards of most academic disciplines, nursing research is...
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RAE of hope for industry links
From 2001, industrially relevant research can be submitted in the RAE. Michael Kenward reports Academic researchers who have toiled to produce papers in the run-up to the 2001 research assessment...
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Calls for commitments to science close conference
The World Conference on Science wrapped up with a range of proposals for national governments to consider, but it ducked the question of funding. Kester Eddy reports from Budapest The speeches...
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Avoiding racial bias
A set of ethical guidelines for researchers dealing with race and mental health issues has been published by the Transcultural Psychiatric Society and the mental health charity Mind. Existing...
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Care in community succeeds despite scare stories
Despite some media scare stories, replacing psychiatric hospitals with residential care in the community has worked well for most patients, according to an analysis by Noam Trieman and Julian Luff of...
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Ozone study hits new level
This month, developing countries will begin phasing out chlorofluorocarbon production. International regulation of CFC production was prompted by research in the 1970s and 1980s that established that...
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Learners take the slow road
Measures to widen education access have had little effect on the number of participants, the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education reported this week. More than 5,000 people took part in...
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Isolation hampers science market
* Poor communication is preventing university researchers from commercially exploiting their work, according to the pressure group Save British Science. "We recommend that universities should gear...
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Blair backs enterprise revolution
(Photograph) - * Britain needs to encourage its entrepreneurs to get ahead in the knowledge-based economy, prime minister Tony Blair (below) told the British Venture Capital Association Conference...
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BMA rejects ban on hepatitis carriers
* Prospective medical students carrying hepatitis B should not be banned from entering medical school, the British Medical Association agreed at its annual conference in Belfast this week. The BMA...
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V-cs reject licensing for student residences
* Vice-chancellors rejected proposals to license student houses for multi-occupation on the grounds of the "unnecessary costs" to the sector and students. The move comes as a response to a Department...
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Dutch minister talks of common standards
* Europe needs a common higher education quality framework to compete internationally, Dutch education minister Loek Hermans said at the fourth University of Westminster International Education...
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Graduation greetings from the bank
* The 2,000 Dundee University students graduating this week and next are having their ceremonies and garden parties sponsored by the Royal Bank of Scotland. Dundee believes the deal is the first such...