Play the smart card
Students demand a uniform standard of teaching, says Peter McCaffery Variable teaching quality is frequently singled out as one of students' main concerns. They consider that their needs are given...
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Get back on course
Mantz Yorke on how to make students' days more than a dull daze In a study which I am leading in the northwest nearly 40 per cent of full-time students who withdrew from their studies in 1994/95...
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Link-ups aim to cheer up the maze of confusion
Harriet Swain on how to make students' days more than a dull daze Enrolment day at Oxford Brookes University holds no happy memories for Julie Corbin. "It was horrible,'' she said. "You had to turn...
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Here's looking at you, kid
Video conferencing will make good teaching bad and bad teaching worse, argue Peter Cope and Sally Brown Contrary to what we are frequently told, video-links that aim to reproduce conventional...
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Time to bring back the chalk to the talk-face
Richard Marquiss would like to pull the plug on the overhead projector I recently attended a research presentation where I became rapidly mesmerised by the use made by the presenter of our old friend...
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Interview
Huw Richards talks to Andrew Dilnot about next Wednesday's Budget - Labour's first since 1979. It wasn't until the 1970s that serious political attention started to focus on tax and public finance. "...
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Awards
American Society for Nutritional Sciences The Lederle Award in Human Nutrition has been conferred on John Scott, professor in the department of biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin. Professor Scott...
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Fellowships
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council The following were awarded senior fellowships by the council: Michael Ashfold, professor in the school of chemistry at the University of Bristol;...
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Patron of the skills arsenal
For 15 years Richard Layard has believed that tackling unemployment meant weaning the long-term jobless off the benefit culture. Now he has a chance to put some flesh on the bones of his theory...
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How dumb teenagers can win prizes
Martin Ince talks to Pat Shipman and Alan Walker, the winners of the Rhone-Poulenc science book prize, whose revelations about a 1.5-million-year old skeleton added much to our knowledge of the '...
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Media glare takes toll on Dolly's 'dad'
Fame has put the world's first cloned sheep on a diet and left her co-creator, Ian Wilmut, feeling a little frazzled. Julia Hinde reports Dolly's on a diet. The world's most photographed sheep has...
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Seeing the white
Richard Dyer leaps to the defence of white studies because, he argues, it forces us to see whiteness as strange rather than as the benchmark of what is ordinary It doesn't take much to raise the...
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An old leftie feels alrighty
After a dismal two decades for the left in Britain, Michael Foot at long last has something to celebrate. Brian Brivati finds Hampstead's most famous resident relishing his party's election landslide...
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Campbell gets science policy role
ANNE Campbell, MP for Cambridge, is to become John Battle's private parliamentary secretary, giving the former member of the House of Commons select committee on science and technology an influential...
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Leslie and his third age eye-opener
Leslie Kennedy-Perry lost out on higher education first time around because he was with the RAF fighting in the second world war. Now, aged 76, he is studying part time for a masters degree in...