Poetry in motion
Staff and students at the troubled Southampton Institute are to benefit from a steady stream of literary enlightenment, courtesy of the institute's new poet in residence, Julia Copus. In the lead-up...
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On the ball
Is British football's relatively poor record in European competition down to the anti-intellectual culture of the game here? The UEFA Champions League Statistical Handbook entry for Norwegian...
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Security risk
Several delegates at the European Association for International Education's annual conference in Budapest discovered the hard way that entrepreneurialism and the worst excesses of the old regime can...
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Chow-chow
When addressing a workshop about exchanges with Chinese universities, Roger Greatrex, professor of Chinese at Lund University, Sweden, stressed the importance of making sure Chinese academics had...
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Pillars of learning
The means by which universities might develop links with their host communities were well documented a year or two back by John Goddard's report on the issue for the Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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Getting the birdie
Serious alarm for ornithologically inclined staff at the Open University, already contemplating the possible loss of 350 jobs in a shake-up of the institution. Headline on a column in the latest...
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King's ransom
Many thanks to Ged Martin, professor of Canadian studies at Edinburgh University, for news of alumnus to be proud of No. 81, one Nicholas of Hungary. He is pretty unchallengeably the oldest entrant...
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Plea to protect franchise critics
AN ACADEMIC pressure group has called for greater protection for lecturers on overseas franchised courses when they raise concerns about standards. The Council for Academic Freedom and Academic...
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Finds query China's past
AN INTERNATIONAL conference on the Mysteries of Ancient China last weekend was told that the established perception of the centrifugal evolution of Chinese civilisation is out of date. The conference...
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Cambridge boasts state school rise
Cambridge University increased its intake of state school students again this year, but students are demanding an investigation into the continued existence of an "old-boy" influence on admissions....
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Foot care feels the takeover pinch
The University of Westminster's threatened podiatric medicine division could be taken over by the University of Brunel. Plans to close the division were announced earlier this year but have met...
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Screen search for siblings
MORE THAN 1,500 sets of brothers and sisters are being enlisted across the United Kingdom in a bid to discover the genes responsible for high blood pressure. Researchers at Aberdeen, Cambridge,...
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Tories bust the record on crime
Conservative policy has failed to tackle Britain's chronic youth crime problem, according to research by Luton University. Researchers from the university centre for crime study say that the number...
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Optometrists keep computer's eye on driving
A COMPUTER model simulating human vision could help improve road safety, University of Wales scientists believe. Researchers there are familiar with the physics and biochemistry of individual...
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Pupils pool brains to improve GCSEs
TEACHING children to think for themselves can dramatically improve children's exam performance, educationists at King's College, London, have shown. A study by the college's school of education...