Probability points to fraud
Statisticians have devised a simple model for detecting cheating in multiple-choice exams. The system scans through test results to identify copying. George Wesolowsky, a management scientist at...
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Agony aunt
I always face a sea of new student faces at the start of term. Any tips on how I can remember their names and identities? * Lorraine Stefani, Reader in academic practice, University of Strathclyde It...
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Running man
(Photograph) - David Howe, a lecturer in the anthropology of sport at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education and a cerebral palsy sufferer, will run in the 5,000 metres for his native...
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Doors still closed to ethnic minorities
If qualifications and experience are anything to go by, Rajinder Mann should now be one of further education's rising stars. In a sector that has been urged by education secretary David Blunkett to...
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Victim wins protection
Whistleblowers can be protected against victimisation even if they raised the alarm before public interest disclosure laws came into force last year, a tribunal chair has ruled. Setting a precedent...
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Mind you don't get caught in the act
Will the Human Rights Act spell the end of the visitor system and herald a host of lawsuits from aggrieved students? Alison Utley finds out University registrars are divided over what the Human...
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Glittering prizes
Zhengxiao Guo, reader in materials at Queen Mary and Westfield College, has been awarded the Beilby Medal by the Society of Chemical Industry. The University of Wolverhampton has awarded an honorary...
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On the move
The UK Council for Graduate Education has set up a working party to examine research training in creative and performing arts and design. It has been convened by Elaine Thomas, director of the Surrey...
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In the news
Simon Schama, professor of art history and history at Columbia University, New York, admitted to feeling "sheepish" at the launch earlier this month of his ambitious BBC television series, A History...
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Law of the sea
What is it about rowing and the law? James Cracknell, a member of the coxless four who paddled to gold in the Sydney Olympics, is due to start a law conversion course at the College of Law on his...
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Marines biologist
Luke Kontogiannis, who recently graduated from Dundee University with a first-class degree in molecular genetics, has been named best biology student in the United Kingdom in the Millennium Science...
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Big Brainy Brother
Nominations please for an academic to take part in the next series of Channel Four's Big Brother, the dumbed-down version of a balloon debate where contestants are locked in a house while viewers...
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Eyewitness
Ecuador's indigenous Indians have warned president Gustavo Noboa that they will step up nationwide action in protest at the government's replacement of the 116-year-old sucre by the US dollar earlier...
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How will our soul be saved?
The commercial creed splits universities between believers and sceptics. John Pratt reports on the debate A speaker at an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development conference in Paris...
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New York
Indonesia is under pressure from the United States to investigate the assassination of Safwan Idris, rector of the Ar Raniry State Institute of Islamic Studies in Banda Aceh. Human Rights Watch said...