Summer schools fail to woo high-fliers
Summer schools for gifted children at five universities are struggling to recruit because parents say their residential courses are too long. The National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth has so...
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Need a little help figuring it out?
Students at Coventry University sing the praises of a drop-in centre offering one-to-one support for those struggling with maths, says Duncan Lawson The so-called "mathematics problem" is not a 21st-...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Joe Kyle Age: 53 Job: Senior lecturer in mathematics, University of Birmingham, and mathematics coordinator, Learning...
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Eureka! Come and play to demystify those materials
Engineering and design students had no feel for composites until they were brought together by Caroline Baillie When I first walked into Rhode Island School of Design some years back, I was...
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Summertime blues emerge
Gastroenteritis, or winter vomiting disease, has for the first time peaked during the summer months in England and Wales, writes Natasha Gilbert. UK researchers Mark Reacher and his team from the...
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PC virus course is 'likely to backfire'
A Canadian university is refusing to drop a computer virus writing course despite complaints by anti-virus software companies that it constitutes a threat to computer security. The course, Computer...
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Fears over hike in visa fee
Australia's booming education export industry could be threatened by a federal government decision to increase the fees foreign students pay for their visas and their university courses. Although...
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Europe commits to Bologna but raises fresh doubts about quality
Europe's universities are committed to advancing the Bologna process of convergence by 2010 but have voiced doubts about some issues they will be asked to tackle. Intensive discussions in Graz,...
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France is in the dark over graduate knowledge, report says
Hardly anything is known about what French students learn during their higher education, according to a report that recommends standardised evaluation tests and training...
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Minsk campus loses powers
Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenka has assumed powers to hire or fire the rector of the "flagship" Belarusian State University in Minsk. The university lost its right to elect its rector or to...
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The whore of Harvard
A former assistant to Larry Summers, now president of Harvard University, moonlighted as a prostitute while working in the university's hallowed halls, according to a US magazine. The woman, Kim Airs...
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Shake-up gathers pace as institutions rise to assembly's challenge
The reconfiguration of higher education in Wales is moving forwards, with two more strategic alliances in the pipeline, funding council leaders have announced. Cash-strapped Lampeter University has...
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Why low body count is fatal for anatomy
Some academics think technology allows anatomy to be taught without cadavers. Others are unconvinced. Claire Sanders reports The new Medical Sciences Teaching Centre at Oxford University holds a...
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I will face the gun to fight for academic freedom
Zimbabwean students are dying fighting a tyrant but the Association of Commonwealth Universities prefers not to notice, says Tapera Kapuya This has been a critical week for Zimbabwe as the opposition...
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'We need about 80 bodies a year. We get about 60'
Donald Farr, the dissecting room manager at Guy's, King's and St Thomas' is a firm believer that those who donate their bodies to science provide an invaluable service to medical education. "We need...