Should adults be allowed to indoctrinate children in any way they choose? Nicholas Humphrey argues that society has a duty to protect the young from bad ideas by teaching them science 98% of the...
THE INSTITUTE of Physics has warned in its submission to the Dearing inquiry into higher education that the age profile of academic staff in university physics departments presents serious problems...
HOW DOES a student's background affect the way he or she learns? The mechanics of learning will be central to a large consortium-based project being led by anthropologists at the University of Sussex...
UNIVERSITIES wanting to strengthen community relations are recognising that museum collections can be valuable public assets. The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, which belongs to Glasgow University...
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle If coffee was our worst vice, we would be in fine shape, says a leading medical academic...
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle SUSTAINABLE management of tropical forests may cause more environmental damage than...
(Photograph) - Does your lab need a helping hand? Deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine unveiled an 'incubator' for corporate ventures in biosciences at Manchester University this week. But...
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle STRICT segregation of the sexes may have played a part in the decline of Athens, a...
(Photograph) - By hook or by Crooks: 22-year-old Lara Crooks has become the University of Wolverhampton's first deaf student to achieve the National Pool Lifeguard qualification. She trained with the...
MINISTERS have postponed changes to early-retirement payments for lecturers in colleges and new universities in a climbdown heralded as a campaigning triumph by teaching unions. The proposed changes...
Thousands of university students all over Italy are in a bureaucratic limbo because law courts, legislators and university authorities have failed to adopt a common policy on limited admission to...
University science courses have escalated in popularity, according to figures released today by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service for 1997 entry. Record numbers of applications for...
The North West Midlands is suffering a bout of unpopularity among prospective students according to an unofficial league table of applications that will dismay admissions officers in the region, A...
The foundations of scientific research are being threatened by a proposed new European directive that may lead to the patenting of all of nature, according to British scientists. In a letter to the...
THE Association of University Teachers has launched a general election offensive on 16 marginal constituencies, warning sitting MPs and parliamentary candidates that they ignore pay and other higher...