Neuroscience audit
PRISM, the Wellcome Trust's Unit for Policy Research in Science and Medicine, has begun an audit of neuroscience research. The group is looking at United Kingdom funding patterns and likely future...
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Alas poor unknown soldier
(Photograph) - Alas poor unknown soldier: Anthea Boylston, biological anthropologist at Bradford University holds one of 50 500-year-old skulls of Lancastrian soldiers recently unearthed in Tadcaster...
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Lecturers' lack of team spirit criticised
An American higher education expert has called for greater recognition of the collective aspects of academic work. Elaine El-Khawas, professor of higher education at the University of California Los...
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Baby watched
Researchers at Durham University are appealing for 60 new-born babies to help a study on changing tastes. The babies will be filmed at age three months, nine months and 15 months to discover their...
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Using initiative
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales is evaluating three of its research initiatives. Institutions and research directors have been asked to give their views on the effectiveness of the...
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Cash for skill base in dispute
Half of Britain's young people should be expected to continue their education after 16 for at least four years, education leaders were told last week. Sir Bryan Nicholson, former president of the...
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Learning distanced from reality in India
I enjoyed the opinion piece "IT can not replace eye-to-eye" (THES, December 6, 1996). If the scenario depicted exists in a developed country like the United Kingdom, one could well imagine the...
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Scientists get teaching ideas mail base
Science lecturers will soon be able to use new technology to exchange tips on teaching. Jonathan Ling, director of studies for physics and astronomy at the University of Hertfordshire, is...
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Myopic elites
For many years Oxford, Cambridge and London played a highly constructive role in helping to set up other universities. It is therefore deeply ironic that members of these universities are prominent...
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Labour protects jobs
THE Labour party has pledged to outlaw waiver clauses for university researchers on fixed-term contracts despite fears that the change could cost the sector millions of pounds a year. The party's...
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Mix and match
The traditional campus model of a university is inappropriate for today's students' needs, says Bryan Nicholson, who believes a creative blend of further and higher education provision is the way to...
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School heads threaten boycott
SCHOOL heads have threatened to boycott classroom-based initial teacher training in a bid to sink controversial Government early retirement plans. The National Association of Head Teachers' action...
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Revolting brothers
Lewis Wolpert's lively review of Frank Sulloway's Born To Rebel (THES, December 20) contains an interesting factual error. Lenin was not, as Wolpert asserts, the first-born in his family. He had an...
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Road safety advice causes danger
THE TRADITIONAL "stop, look and listen" road safety message could be putting children's lives at risk, according to researchers. Psychologists at the university of Lincolnshire and Humberside have...
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So much, by so many, for so little
The conduct of the research assessment exercise has drawn as much fire from academics as have the results. THE MOST depressing feature of The THES's coverage of the 1996 universities research...