* MATURE students should be offered a fast track through medical school, says the higher and further education minister Tessa Blackstone, writes Julia Hinde. "At the pre-clinical stage and possibly...
BALLS and big spenders are not confined to traditional institutions. New universities have their share of wealthy students and even graduates who have struggled through the year will try to fork out...
IF the science world was concerned about the appointment of a non-specialist as minister for science, energy and industry, then it can draw some solace from the "meet John Battle" drinks arranged for...
From Tokyo to Tallinn attempts are being made to overhaul traditional university matriculation It was Brahms's Bolero, wasn't it? And Picasso painted the "Mona Lisa" ... or was it Durer? These...
The Ford Motor Company's in-house staff training programme looks set to become the model for the Government's promised University for Industry, writes Phil Baty. Prime minister Tony Blair was due to...
Technology Foresight has worked well and was worth the effort, but simply repeating the exercise in 2000 will not do, says a report by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. According to...
VOCATIONAL qualifications should "interface" with academic study in higher education, education minister Tessa Blackstone told awarding bodies, education providers and employers this week. Speaking...
GERALDINE Kenney-Wallace, vice chancellor of British Aerospace's planned "virtual university", this week promised strong teaching and research partnerships with other British universities. Dr Kenney-...
Most people see addiction as a transition between behaviour which is voluntary and under their own control to a form of behaviour determined by the pharmacology of the brain, where the addict can no...
* Instants scratchcards are more likely than the National Lottery draw to cause children to become compulsive gamblers, researchers believe. Sue Fisher, senior research fellow in the faculty of human...
IT'S ADDICTION - but not as we know it, claims a researcher who has spent the last four years studying people hooked on Star Trek. Sandy Wolfson, principal lecturer in psychology at the University of...
John Major is more famous than Tom Cruise or The Queen according to psychologists studying celebrity status. A large-scale survey of undergraduates in Nottingham reveals that the top ten famous names...
People who are overweight and have high cholesterol levels could soon solve both these problems with a single pill. Research by Tariq Javed, senior lecturer in pharmaceutical sciences at Coventry...
The Dutch are noted for being good traders who are tight with their money. A study by Amsterdam's Free University illustrates another side to their nature. Out of a population of 16 million, more...
Threat of state execution has little effect on suicide rates among murder suspects. A study by Sam Cameron, a researcher at Bradford University's department of social and economic studies, shows the...