First geological survey untainted
The 17th-century Italian academics involved in the first scientific geological field survey were not guilty of allowing politics to dictate their conclusions. Andrew Scott, a palaeobotanist at Royal...
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Word order may stump hackers
Scholars have devised a way to protect the integrity of sensitive documents from hackers by adding a hidden "watermark" in the syntax and grammatical structure of the text. The computerised approach...
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How to: Stop jitters when public speaking
To assist students with presentations, tutors should teach them to relax and help them prepare thoroughly, says Mark Griffiths. Most of us have suffered a little anxiety before speaking in public....
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Star turn: Ways to spread your wings
With the Teaching Fellowship Awards approaching, one of last year's winners tells Esther Leach how he is spending his £50,000 prize making web learning fun. Mick Short pulls out a pair of large,...
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Agony Aunt: Keeping up to date with information resources
Q: I regularly send students off to the library but realise that I am probably out of date about what it has to offer. Any suggestions? A: The first thing to do is to make contact with the subject-...
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What is the right choice?
Staff are seeking exams that will reduce workload. Gareth Holsgrove looks at the pros and cons of multiple-choice questions Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) have existed as an examination method for...
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Headscarves ban imposed on Turkish Cyprus
Turkey's ban on headscarves has spread to universities in the Turkish Republic of Cyprus, where restrictions on religious dress by female students are being increasingly enforced. Scores of students...
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Ministers mistrusted on health and science
People are three times more likely to trust farmers than government ministers to tell the truth about foot-and-mouth disease. A survey carried out by Nick Pidgeon of the University of East Anglia's...
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Students in Leeds tarred by sex myth
An urban myth that was reported as fact has led to worldwide stories that prostitution is rife among students in Leeds. James Cemmell, education officer at Leeds University Union, was quoted by a BBC...
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Students attending the London May Day demonstration
Students attending the London May Day demonstration as peaceful protesters were angry that the actions of a few violent individuals reflected badly on them, said Scott Rice, president of the...
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Higher education grants
University of Huddersfield The following have been awarded grants : Prof P. A. Barnes , £248,574 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (an instrument for the quasi-simultaneous...
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Latest international news
New Zealand needs more academics, say v-cs New Zealand universities need to appoint an extra 500 full-time academic staff to match staff:student ratios in Australia and the United Kingdom, the...
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Latest UK news
Triesman calls for boycott of Oxford Union The Association of University Teachers general secretary David Triesman has threatened to campaign for a worldwide boycott of the Oxford Union for inviting...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Oxford University is to open the world's first internet institute in an effort to put Britain at the centre of global e-research after Dame Steve Shirley, founder of FI Group and one...
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Polishing those pledges before electoral rituals
As the parties fine tune their manifestos, Anthony Barker looks at some key issues that will not win the election. A general election campaign is imminent and "education" will, of course, be one of...