Use of the words "Kurd" or "Kurdish" has been banned in Turkish universities under a confidential directive distributed by governors' offices. The directive lists 37 words and phrases that should not...
Tony Blair's criticism this week of the public sector's reluctance to face change might have been designed for the university admissions system. Neither students nor universities like it. Students...
Though pleased with much of the white paper on post-16 reforms, Colin Flint fears that the government may seriously undermine the further education sector Further education grew up to fill the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
* 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...
(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...
* 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...