A night's escort duty on the Pine-Park interchange
It was a mild spring night and Karen Pelley, Chantal Maynard and I were wearing bright red Walksafe jackets as we patrolled through a square-mile zone on a four-hour Friday shift. One of the two...
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Novelist goes for lottery cash to cast net wider
Despite the fact that novelist Sue Thomas reads books on her pocket organiser and publishes her work on the Internet she takes issue with colleagues who fear the death of the book. Ms Thomas,...
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Rape victim walks safely
Canadian's idea leads Newcastle women to take back the night .. with an escort When Sandra Dunkin heard there had been a rape on campus at Newcastle University her thoughts flashed back to her own...
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Awarder bids open
Universities have been invited to apply for awarding-body status for National Vocational Qualifications by Nick Tate, chief executive of the new Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. Higher...
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Good diet makes body run better
ATHLETES should pay more attention to eating a balanced diet rather than seeking quick-fix performance enhancing solutions, according to the latest nutritional research. Nutritionalists say sports...
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Footballers not top of pay league
MOST professional footballers are not nearly as rich as we think, a national study has found. The popular image of the millionaire football superstar, such as Eric Cantona, hides the reality for many...
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Place in the sun
(Photograph) - Place in the sun: Peter Attwell, a final-year mature student at Plymouth University's school of electronic, communication and electrical engineering, has developed a mobile dish which...
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Sports scientists perfecting computer programme to improve coaching techniques
Sports scientists at Liverpool John Moores University are close to perfecting an innovative computer program that could greatly improve coaching techniques by analysing the performance of footballers...
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League table language gaps
I WRITE to correct the information on French and German at Aston University in your subject quality league table. French and German were submitted to the research assessment exercise under the...
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Tough veg muscle in
GARDENERS plagued by wilting lettuces and off-colour tomato plants are to get a helping hand from scientists. A team from Lancaster University's biological sciences department has identified...
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Holy overlooked
The Ayatollahs in Iran, Bishop Tutu in South Africa, the Dalai Lama in Taiwan and Bishop Carols Belo in East Timor all have religion. But no one knows why. Religion has a persistent and continuing...
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Bugs stop athletes in their tracks
A Pounds 100,000 research project at Birmingham University could help to reduce the high incidence of infection among athletes specialising in sports such as long-distance running, cycling and...
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Jobless dominate poll
CANADA'S three national education groups are working hard to read the entrails of the federal election speeches and find some mention of higher education in a campaign dominated by national unity and...
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Court backs sacked lecturers who refused to go to work
A Nigerian court has backed university lecturers fired by the University of Nsukka for their refusal to comply with an ultimatum to return to work after a national strike. But the university...
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Harvard women in tenure protest
Fifteen senior women faculty at Harvard are protesting against the university's decision not to grant tenure to Bonnie Honig, a 37-year-old associate professor whom her colleagues described as a "...